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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. 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. 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 […]...
4. Freedom Riders in the Smithsonian Magazine On Sunday, May 14, 1961—mother’s day—scores of angry white people blocked a Greyhound bus carrying black and white passengers through rural Alabama. The attackers pelted the vehicle with rocks and bricks, slashed tires, smashed windows with pipes and axes and lobbed a firebomb through a broken window. As smoke and flames filled the bus, the […]...
5. Once More to the Front Lines This is the second in a series of posts by Freedom Riders in response to Barack Obama’s victory (see the other entries here.) Robert Singleton (above) teaches economics at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Helen, who was also a Freedom Rider and who is pictured on the cover […]...