"As Arsenault makes clear, the Freedom Rides revealed the pathology of the South. This was a society not simply of violent mobs but of judges who flagrantly disregarded the Constitution, police officers who conspired with criminals and doctors who refused to treat the injured. Southern newspapers almost universally condemned the riders as 'hate mongers' and outside agitators (even though about half had been born and raised in the South)."
Eric Foner reviews Raymond Arsenaut's Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice in The New York Times (via Ghost in the Machine).
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