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1. 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 […]...
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. 21 Months  This is the fourth in a series of posts by Freedom Riders in response to Barack Obama’s victory (see the other entries here.) Helen Singleton was a student at Santa Monica City College when she joined the Freedom Rides, along with her husband, Robert. They were arrested July 30, 1961, at the train station in […]...
4. 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 […]...
5. Breach @Google and Tavis  The last stop on the West Coast swing of my book tour was at Google World HQ, in Mountain View, CA. The video, courtesy of Authors@Google, shows my standard speech & slides, and also includes, toward the end, remarks by Freedom Rider Mimi Real. The week before, in Los Angeles, I appeared on the Tavis […]...