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“A Cheap Trafficking in Human Misery”: The Reverse Freedom Rides of 1962

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2004

CLIVE WEBB
CLIVE WEBB
Affiliation:
American Studies Department, School of Humanities, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QN, UK. Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

Shortly after 7 o'clock on the morning of 20 April 1962, Louis and Dorothy Boyd arrived at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City. The journey from their native New Orleans had taken forty-three hours. With the Boyds were their eight children, five girls and three boys aged between three and twelve years old. Between them the family carried their entire worldly possessions in three cardboard boxes and an old foot locker.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of American Studies , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , August 2004 , pp. 249 - 271
Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The author thanks Robert Cook, Adam Fairclough, Vivien Hart, Kathleen Kendall, Kevin Kruse and the anonymous reader for their critical comments on this article.