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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]
In the PBS documentary Freedom Riders (airdate May 16, 2011), Mulholland is featured as one of 40 former college students from across the United States who embarked on a bus ride from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans, on May 6–16, 2011, retracing the original route of the Freedom Riders. In her interview for Freedom Riders, she recalls the ...
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 ...
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 ...
David J. Garrow of Homerton College, Cambridge University, described the book as "excellent", [8] as well as "authoritative, perceptive, and well-written", citing how the author accomplished a "superb job of" explaining the developments, as well as "capturing the striking diversity of the later groups of Freedom Riders."
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 ...
Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang after challenging Jim Crow laws will have their sentences posthumously vacated. On April 9, 1947, a ...
Oretha Castle's home served as the New Orleans headquarters for the Freedom Riders. [8] With help from Oretha's mother Virgie and sister Doris, their home housed and fed hundreds of Freedom Riders coming and going throughout the summer. New Orleans CORE sponsored several Freedom Rides through Louisiana and Mississippi. When two Freedom Riders ...