Thursday, June 2, 2011

Freedom Rider Thomas Armstrong on segregation, progress, and the trauma of war

by S.L. Wisenberg Born in Silver Creek, Mississippi, Thomas Armstrong was 14 in 1955—the same year another African-American 14-year-old, Emmett Till, was kidnapped, tortured, and killed in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman. Three years later, as a student at Tougaloo College, Armstrong got involved in civil rights work.…

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Source: http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/thomas-armstrong-autobiography-of-a-freedom-rider/Content?oid=3966955

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