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Carol Ruth Silver's FREEDOM RIDER DIARY:                                    Smuggled  Notes from Parchman Prison --                                            San Francisco Book Signing and LAUNCH! (Book Signings also March 4 to March 10 in LA, NYC & Boston - look on Facebook and below)               This book is the prison diary kept, day by day for 40 days, by the author, as a young woman,...Share this event on Facebook
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                    We hope you can make it!Cheers,Paula Fiscal, Public Relations, Toll Free voice and Fax : 877-389-2617 or CRS Direct: 415 861 5802

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Event: Carol Ruth Silver: Freedom Rider Diary - Come to San Francisco for First Book Signing and LAUNCH!
Date: Monday, March 3, 2014 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PST)
Location: Books, Inc. Bookstore, Opera Plaza 601 Van Ness Av (between Golden Gate & Turk) 415-776-1111 San Francisco , CA 94102

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Carol Ruth Silver's FREEDOM RIDER DIARY:                                   Smuggled  Notes from Parchman Prison --                                            San Francisco Book Signing and LAUNCH!
(Book Signings also March 4 to March 10 in LA, NYC & Boston - look on Facebook and below)              
This book is the prison diary kept, day by day for 40 days, by the author, as a young woman, arrested and imprisoned as a Freedom Rider.  Freedom Riders were ordinary people, mostly young, both white and African-American, who challenged the system of segregation – apartheid – which had existed in the US South for almost a hundred years. Segregation preserved the power relationships between the freed African-Americans who had been slaves and their White former owners. In the two decades before the Freedom Rides, court challenges and education had eroded this system, but only around the edges. Armed with their belief in the equality of all persons, and with a decision of the US Supreme Court, the Freedom Riders boarded commercial buses, riding in small integrated groups, to challenge segregation in inter-state facilities in the deep South. They met violence, resistance, and incarceration.
Also Included:  
--Photo essay edited by Claude A. Liggins, Freedom Rider
--Personal details of the author’s life before the Freedom Rides 
--A short introduction by Ray Arsenault (same basis as for the PBS film Freedom Riders) 
--Afterward by Cherie A. Gaines, an Oakland, CA African American attorney 
Bio of Carol Ruth Silver:
Freedom Rider, 1961; Law School, JD University of Chicago; Civil Rights Attorney; Attorney and Program Director in OEO Legal Services for the Poor; Elected Official (three terms on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors); founder of San Francisco's Chinese American International School; Since 2002 working to promote education for girls in Afghanistan, including co-founding two San Francisco Bay Area organizations; Mother, Grandmother.

Can't attend?  Order on line at Books Inc at
http://www.booksinc.net/book/9781617038877‎
or at Barnes & Noble / www.bn.com
In LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK AND BOSTON join us for LAUNCH! and Book Signings at:

Tuesday 3/4/14 - B&N Burbank CA at 12 Noon,                                                                              731 N San Fernando Blvd, Burbank CA 91502
Tuesday 3/4/14 - B&N Santa Monica CA at 6-8:00 PM,                                                               1201 – 3rd Street (at Wilshire), Santa Monica, CA 90401 
Thursday 3/6/14 - Books Culture, NEW YORK  NY                                                                       536 West 112 St, New York, NY 10025
Monday 3/10/14 – B&N Boston MA at 7:00 PM                                                                                  1 Worcester Road, Framingham, Mass 01701
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Paula Fiscal, Public Relations, Toll Free voice and Fax : 877-389-2617 or CRS Direct: 415 861 5802
This phone number will accept faxes and voice mails.  Press the number # 1 to reach Paula.

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