In 1997 Gary Younge explored the American South by retracing the route of the original Freedom Riders of the 1960s.
Though a Briton by birth and the child of emigrants from Barbados, he felt culturally alie.
He felt culturally tied to this strange yet familiar place.
As he traveled by Greyhound bus Through the former Confederate states, he experienced an awakening.
He was British, journalistically curious, and black.
His road trip was a remarkable socio-cultural adventure for an outsider.
In 1997 Gary Younge explored the American South by retracing the route of the original Freedom Riders of the 1960s