Their trip became known as the Freedom Rides. In Freedom Riders, a new documentary that airs this month on PBS, filmmaker Stanley Nelson talks with the people who witnessed the rides, which were ...

The trip will overlap with a reunion of original Freedom Riders noting the 50th anniversary ... the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

And now, I hope to learn more about the Freedom Rides of 1961 through a new documentary. In Freedom Riders, award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson chronicles -- and attempts to clarify -- the non ...

Stripping away the platitudes and feel-good generalizations of so many civil-rights documentaries, Stanley Nelson’s “Freedom Riders” is a superb piece of filmic journalism. As it recounts ...

Barbara Bowie, executive director of the Dr. Bowie Scholarship Foundation, which arranged the event, said there's a need to get the Freedom Riders' story to the public, especially youth.

Freedom Riders National Monument is a new park that ... Buy on REI.com and REI will donate 10% of pass proceeds to the ...

The panelists were members of the New Orleans chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and participated in the Freedom Rides, a 1961 protest against racial segregation in public ...

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 Americans risked their ...