Breach of Peace (book)

Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders
Book cover
AuthorEric Etheridge
PublisherAtlas & Co.
Publication date
2008
ISBN9780977743391
OCLC191245899

Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders is a 2008 book by Eric Etheridge. The book features the life stories of over 80 of the Freedom Riders who fought to desegregate interstate bus transportation in the Deep South, and includes both their original mug shots and contemporary photographic portraits taken 45 or more years later by Etheridge. The mug shots had been stored for decades by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, a state "government agency formed in 1956 to oppose the Civil Rights Movement and the federal government".[1] The preface was written by Roger Wilkins and the foreword by Diane McWhorter.

  1. ^ Trachtenberg, Jeffrey A. (May 24, 2008). "Freedom Photos". The Wall Street Journal. New York City. Retrieved June 17, 2012.