Danny Duncan Collum: 2 books

Based on the oral histories of Holy Family Church in Natchez, Black and Catholic in the Jim Crow South tells the story of black Catholics' 20th-century struggle through the voices of the people who lived through it

In the summer of 1961, black and white Freedom Riders from all over the U.S. converged on Jackson, Mississippi in a campaign to force the desegregation of public transportation and public facilities. Buses were burned. Some Riders were beaten almost to death. They were jailed by the hundreds, and they...