An appendix running fifty-four pages at the back of his nearly 700-page 2006 book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice provides a biographical dictionary of every Freedom Rider he could find, documenting each rider on each ride, giving their age, gender, hometown, profession or college where they studied, and what became of them. He later worked at a hospice in Tucson, and still lives in Tucson, where he has retired.Īrsenault collected 436 such stories. He became a minister in the United Church of Christ, and then switched career tracks in 1975 to become a personnel manager for IBM. Zwerg was hospitalized after a mob beat him with bats and pipes in Montgomery, Alabama. And there was Jim Zwerg, who was a Wisconsin student on exchange at Fisk University when he became a Freedom Rider.
