'These images serve to bear witness for those who walked, marched, rode, were beaten, jailed, denied their dignity, or died for freedom and equality.'
In May 1961, Bruce Davidson joined a group of Freedom Riders travelling by bus from Montgomery, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi, challenging racial segregation and defying federal laws that prohibited integrated interstate bus travel. This trip marked the beginning of his deep involvement in the civil rights movement between 1961 and 1965. In 1962, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, which allowed him to continue documenting key moments of the era.

First edition, signed in black pen on half-title; (288 x 296 mm, 11¼ x 11¾ in); black & white photographs, foreword by Congressman John Lewis, introduction by Deborah Willis. edges lightly toned; plain endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, photographic reproduction mounted on upper side, titles stamped in black on spine and upper side, publisher's rubbed and marked acetate dust-jacket, a very good copy; [172]pp.