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2. Freedom Riders (film) - Wikipedia

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   Freedom Riders is a 2010 American historical documentary film, produced by Firelight Media for the twenty-third season of American Experience on PBS. The film is based in part on the book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by historian Raymond Arsenault . [ 1 ]

3. Freedom Writers - Wikipedia

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   The movie is also based on the DC program called City at Peace. The title of the movie and book is a play on the term "Freedom Riders," referring to the multiracial civil rights activists who tested the U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering the desegregation of interstate buses in 1961.

4. Freedom Riders - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 December 2024. American civil rights activists of the 1960s "Freedom ride" redirects here. For the Australian Freedom Ride, see Freedom Ride (Australia). For the book, see Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. Freedom Riders Part of the Civil Rights Movement Mugshots of Freedom ...

5. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

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   Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice is a 2006 non-fiction book by Raymond Arsenault, published by Oxford University Press. The scope of the book ranges from the Irene Morgan case and the Journey of Reconciliation .

6. Freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina

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   On April 9, 1947, a group of eight white men and eight Black men began the first “freedom ride” to challenge laws that mandated segregation on buses in defiance of the 1946 U.S. Supreme Court ...

7. Anniston and Birmingham bus attacks - Wikipedia

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   The Freedom Rides of 1961 and the May 14 attacks are considered a vital event in the civil rights movement. They are a prominent example of the successful use of nonviolence to effect political change. They helped inspire further activism in the form of Freedom Schools, involvement with the Black Power movement, and voter registration campaigns ...

8. 75 years after sentencing Freedom Riders to the chain ... - AOL

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   Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in The post 75 years after sentencing Freedom Riders to the chain gang, N.C. tosses out ...

9. Freedom riders’ 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina

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   Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in The post Freedom riders’ 1947 convictions vacated in North Carolina appeared first ...