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Carol Ruth Silver (born October 1, 1938) [1] [page needed] is an American lawyer and civil rights activist. She was a Freedom Rider, arrested and incarcerated for 40 days in Mississippi.
Carol Ruth Silver was one of the first two white women to be jailed in the Freedom Rides, an experience that sparked a career in law and politics, fighting for the rights of others.
Carol Ruth Silver was a secretary and clerk for the United Nations when she was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for her participation in a Freedom Ride. As part of the Freedom Ride Silver and five others took a Trailways bus from Nashville, Tennessee, via Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi where they were arrested on 7 June 1961.
Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent the next forty days in Mississippi jail cells, including the Maximum Security Unit at the infamous Parchman Prison Farm.
- Carol Ruth Silver
May 26, 2011 · 50 years after the Freedom Rides of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver - one of over 400 riders arrested and jailed for her non-violent protests against illegal segregation - shares her perspective on the...
Jun 23, 2021 · Carol Ruth Silver (b. 1938) responded to CORE’s 1961 radio call for freedom riders to challenge segregation on interstate buses. She was the only woman on her multiracial freedom-riding bus.
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In the summer of 1961, the Freedom Riders, a group of mostly young people, both black and white, including Carol Ruth Silver, risked their lives to challenge the system of segregation in interstate travel in the South.The University of Mississippi's Freedom riders oral history project includes interviews recorded in conjunction with the 40th ...
