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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 Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

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   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)

4. 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.

5. Joan Trumpauer Mulholland - Wikipedia

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   Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born September 14, 1941) is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman Farm"). [1]

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. Winonah Myers - Wikipedia

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   Margaret Winonah Beamer Myers (September 10, 1941 – March 16, 2018) [1] [2] was an American political activist, who, in 1961 at the age of 19, became a Freedom Rider. Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of ...

8. 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 ...

9. Jim Crow freedom riders' 1947 convictions vacated in North ...

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   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 ...