The Freedom Riders - Lecture and Panel Discussion

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Sins of our Country

Tue. Jan. 10, 2012

Freedom Riders - 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

March 17, 2007

Raymond Arsenault professor, southern history, USF

Raymond Arsenault brings a defining moment in modern American history to life, drawing on personal papers, FBI files, and interviews with more than 200 participants in the rides. Arsenault's Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice rescues the men and women who, at great personal risk, rode public buses into the South in order to challenge segregation in interstate travel from historical obscurity.

This lecture is copresented with the Georgia Center for the Book.

Series:

• AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Freedom Riders
• Civil Rights Movement Series

Topics: Culture & Identity | History

Sub-Topics: Activism | Human Rights | Military & Warfare | Race

The Freedom Rides - A Panel Discussion on the Movie

April 20, 2011

Bernard LaFayette scholar-in-residence, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

Callie Crossley radio host, The Callie Crossley Show [homepage]

Genevieve Hughes former Freedom Rider

Ernest Patton former Freedom Rider

PBS and the Kennedy Library hosted a Boston screening of American Experience’s “Freedom Riders.” Following the documentary, Bernard Lafayette and others participated in a panel discussion moderated by 89.7 WGBH radio host, Callie Crossley.

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The Freedom Riders

The Crazy Old Man Network

Sins of our Country

Mon. Jan. 9, 2011

"Freedom Riders" comes to AMERICAN EXPERIENCE in May of 2011

In 1961, segregation seemed to have an overwhelming grip on American society. Many states violently enforced the policy, while the federal government, under the Kennedy administration, remained indifferent, preoccupied with matters abroad. That is, until an integrated band of college students—many of whom were the first in their families to attend a university—decided, en masse, to risk everything and buy a ticket on a Greyhound bus bound for the Deep South. They called themselves the Freedom Riders, and they managed to bring the president and the entire American public face to face with the challenge of correcting civil-rights inequities that plagued the nation.

Veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson's inspirational documentary is the first feature-length film about this courageous band of civil-rights activists. Gaining impressive access to influential figures on both sides of the issue, Nelson chronicles a chapter of American history that stands as an astonishing testament to the accomplishment of youth and what can result from the incredible combination of personal conviction and the courage to organize against all odds. (Shari Frilot/Sundance Film Festival)

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