Description
In the Segregated Deep South, When Lynching and Klansmen and Jim Crow laws ruled, there stood a line of foot soldiers in a position to sacrifice their lives for the correct to vote, to go into rooms marked ‘White Only,’ and to live with simple dignity. They were known as Freedom Riders, and Thomas M. Armstrong used to be certainly one of them. That is his story.
Autobiography of a Freedom Rider details Armstrong’s burning want to create social change for his fellow black citizens. This richly woven memoir, which traces back to his great-grandparents as freed slaves, examines the history of the Civil Rights Movement, the devastating personal repercussions Armstrong endured for being a champion of those rights, the sweet taste of progressive advancement prior to now fifty years, and a look ahead on the work still to be done.