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1. Breach Readings in Cleveland, Flint and Kalamazoo  I’ll be making a swing through Ohio and Michigan at the end of February, doing my reading/slideshow at public libraries in Cleveland, Flint and Kalamazoo. Appearing with me at all three events will be Freedom Rider Miller Green (above and below). Miller was a high school student in Jackson, MS, when he was arrested on […]...
2. Breach of Peace at the Museum of Jewish Heritage  I will be appearing at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in lower Manhattan on Wednesday, January 14, at 7 PM. I will show photographs from the book and Freedom Riders Joan Pleune, Lewis Zuchman and Hezekiah Watkins (above) will talk about their experiences. At the time of the Rides, Joan was a student at Berkeley, […]...
3. Breach of Peace: On the Air, On the Road  I’m doing two radio interviews about the book this weekend. On Saturday night, I will join Freedom Riders Claire O’Connor, Zev Aelony and Thomas Armstrong on Radio Free Nation. The show starts at 8:30PM EST, and I should be on around 8:45PM or so. Tune in here. On Sunday, I will talk with John Batchelor […]...
4. Breach at the Harlem Book Fair on C-SPAN2  I’m moderating a panel on the Freedom Rides this Saturday, July 19, at the Harlem Book Fair. The panel runs from 6:15 to 7:15 PM, and will include three Freedom Riders: Helen and Bob Singleton, who are featured on the covers of the book, and Lewis Zuchman. It will also be broadcast live on C-SPAN2, […]...
5. Buses Are A-Coming!
   The Freedom Riders Return to Jackson  “Buses Are A-Coming” is a Freedom Song created like so many others: composed in the heat of moment — in this instance in a Jackson, Mississippi, jail cell. Freedom Rider Bernard LaFayette Jr., who rode on the first bus into Jackson, describes its genesis in Stanley Nelson’s forthcoming PBS documentary on the Rides: We made […]...