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Welcome to Breach of Peace

In Siteworks on April 17, 2008, with 1 comment

Breach of Peace is a book about the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders, a photo-history told in images old and new. The book features new portraits of 80 Riders and the mug shots of all 328 Riders arrested in Jackson that year, along with excerpts of interviews with the featured Riders.

The book is available for pre-order at Amazon and elsewhere online. It will be in stores soon.

In talking to the Freedom Riders and doing research, I collected a great deal of material that did not fit in the book — excerpts from interviews with Riders, documents they saved, government memos, archival newspaper coverage. I am going to be publishing all that on this site, in an ongoing effort to document this remarkable episode in American history.

Read more about the book, the mug shots, the Freedom Rides and me on this page.

Related posts:

  1. Inside Breach of Peace  Get your own – Open publication Here’s a sample from Breach of Peace. It shows a selection of the archival images that open the book, and the complete chapters on the first two groups of Riders to arrive in Jackson. Click on the pages above to go to a much larger display of this excerpt […]...
  2. NOW SHIPPING! New & Improved ‘Breach of Peace’    Updated August 28, 2018 I’m thrilled to announce that Vanderbilt University Press has published an expanded edition of Breach of Peace in paperback. They’ve let me add new portraits and profiles of sixteen Riders I found — or who found me — after the original edition was published in 2008. I’ve also updated the […]...
  3. 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, […]...
  4. 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 […]...
  5. 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 […]...


1 Comment

Thank you for this site. I look forward to reading your book. In 1961 I was a graduate student at Cornell University, part of a group of students working on civil rights. Some of our group went to the Freedom Rides — Charles Haynie, Dave Kotelchuk, and a few others. As I was just married, they insisted I stay behind in Ithaca, where I was in touch with them and part of the group that was urging Robert Kennedy’s Department of Justice to offer protection. Our friends went through Jackson, were arrested, and spent time in Parchman State Penitentiary.

I college at Hamilton (1954-58) I knew Bob Moses (I don’t think he knew who I was). He was making a difference at Hamilton before he led the voter registration project in Mississippi Freedom Summer.

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Posted by Tom Benson on 3 May 2008 @ 8pm

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