The story behind a courageous band of civil rights activists called Freedom Riders who in 1961 challenged segregation in the American South. American Experience is available to stream on pbs.org ...

Join us for a special screening of PBS’s “American Experience: Freedom Riders,” an inspirational 2010 documentary by veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson. The 1961 Freedom Rides are a focus of the current ...

Also, the library will screen several films and hold a music symposium and other events related to the Freedom Riders. • The “American Experience” documentary “Freedom Riders” will air ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Rep. John Lewis said he teared up Friday when he walked through the old Greyhound station where he was beaten and knocked unconscious... MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Freedom ...

director of the “Freedom Riders” documentary; Mark Samels, executive producer of “American Experience;” and several original Freedom Riders, including those from New Orleans who continued ...

The show is a prelude to the American Experience documentary "Freedom Riders" that will air on PBS on May 16. The Freedom Riders took a cue from the Journey of Reconciliation in 1947 that tested a ...

Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white ...

Afro American Newspapers/Gado ... his “I Have a Dream” speech. “That whole experience and in his role with the Freedom Riders really consolidated his reputation as this fearless civil ...

At the jail, when Lightchild was put in the African American cell and Hamilton ... and continued to volunteer with the Freedom Riders. In another jail experience a couple of years later, several ...