![]() ![]() or penned in a waiting room in the dark surrounded by the Ku Klux Klan and affiliated officials and laymen. It is at times claustrophobic when The Freedom Riders are trapped on buses which were firebombed. ![]() These were not college students but school children aged 7 upwards and nearly a thousand were arrested on May 2nd 1963 during their peaceful protest.Īll this very real horror - this leering and jeering and sneering and snarling and spitting and mob attacks by white civilians and policemen and militia upon defenceless black pacifists - is depicted unflinchingly by Nate Powell (SWALLOW ME WHOLE, ANY EMPIRE, THE YEAR OF THE BEASTS, SOUNDS OF YOUR NAME). ![]() ![]() Never mind the water cannons then rabid, salivating dogs unleashed against school children by Police Chief Eugene "Bull" Connor in Alabama. There is so much blood, so much ferocious anger, so many heads smashed against floors and so many skulls caved in by police batons. Autobiography from indomitable Civil Rights campaigner - now United States Congressman - John Lewis.Įvery event chronicled here in painful, painstaking detail happened to John Lewis and those around him between 19 during The Freedom Rides and Operation Open City. ![]()
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