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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 ]
Freedom Riders (original) - Oxford University Press; Freedom Riders - Abridged Edition - Oxford University Press; Freedom Riders at the Internet Archive; The book's introduction: " "Freedom Riders" by Raymond Arsenault (July-August 2006 P&R Issue)". Poverty & Race Research Action Council. 2006-08-01. - PDF (endnotes are not present on this page)
The Freedom Riders: The Civil Rights Musical is a theater musical retelling the story of the Freedom Rides. [151] The musical was created by Los Angeles screenwriter/director Richard Allen, and San Diego native music artist Taran Gray.
Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died Jan. 8 in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82. In 1961 ...
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 ...
Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they launched the first of the “freedom rides” to challenge ...
Irene Amos Morgan (April 9, 1917 – August 10, 2007), later known as Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, was an African-American woman from Baltimore, Maryland, who was arrested in Middlesex County, Virginia, in 1944 under a state law imposing racial segregation in public facilities and transportation.
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