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Carol Ruth Silver (born October 1, 1938) [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.
31. Aug. 2020 · My name is Carol Ruth Silver. I was born in Boston Massachusetts many long years ago. I went to public schools in Massachusetts, got scholarships to the University of Chicago, and I wound up in San Francisco, California for most of my professional career. The things that I am doing now are, when I reflect on them, very much connected ...
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, AB’60, JD’64, has been raising eyebrows over her politics all her life. In her third year of high school, she persuaded her mother, who quit school at 14, to join an adult-education discussion group at the Worcester, Massachusetts, public library—sponsored by the University of Chicago—so Silver also could partake in ...
Carol Ruth Silver, AB’60, JD’64 On May 4, 1961, the first group of civil rights activists known as Freedom Riders boarded two buses in Washington, DC. Their destination was New Orleans; their intent was to desegregate bus travel in the South.
In 1961, Carol Ruth Silver became a Freedom Rider. A twenty-two-year-old secretary working at the United Nations headquarters in New York, she was one of the 436 seemingly “ordinary” individuals who participated in an extraordinary civil rights campaign that transformed the character of American democracy.
