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1. Welcome to Breach of Peace  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 […]...
2. 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 […]...
3. 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 […]...
4. 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 […]...
5. 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, […]...