us and train stations—was ended. Three years later came the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Most of the Freedom Riders were students. They weren’t all “outside agitators”—a surprising number were African-Americans from Mississippi. More than a few were clergymen or future clergymen, and many more were motivated by Christian faith—a useful reminder that Christian belief, including evangelical Christian belief, has historically encompassed a social vision far more capacious than the punitive regulation of people’s sex lives. A few Freedom Riders, including John Lewis, would later achieve a degree of fame. Most ended up living more or less ordinary bourgeois or working-class lives, but in almost every case with an element of service. “Breach of Peace,” published by Atlas & Co., has a preface by Roger Wilkins, the lawyer-historian and civil-rights sage, and a foreword by Diane McWhorter, author of “Carry Me Home,” the classic history of the civil rights struggle in her native Birmingham, Alabama. Eric Etheridge himself was only four when the Freedom Riders rode, but he grew up in a little town not far from Jackson, Mississippi, and his solid feel for his subject is evident throughout this marvelous, moving book. Here’s a a good glimpse of it.
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