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 ...

Freedom Riders: American Experience will debut on PBS tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific, 8 p.m. Central and Mountain in most markets. Check local listings. The Civil Rights movement occupies a ...

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 ...

PBS chronicles these stories and experiences through interviews with surviving Freedom Riders and original photos and videos from the rides. Along with the film release, PBS' American Experience ...

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 ...

Stanley Nelson’s documentary film “Freedom Riders,” airing Monday on KOCE as part of PBS’ “The American Experience,” tells that story and, by focusing on a single chapter of a long ...

The film, "Freedom Riders," recounts the 1961 crusade by daring young activists intent on ending segregated travel on interstate buses in the Deep South. The American Experience film, set to air ...

American Experience has chosen 40 student Freedom Riders who will travel the original bus route of the legendary civil-rights activists who used public transportation to challenge segregation in the ...

Since she was appointed executive producer of “American Experience” in July ... Nelson’s “The Murder of Emmett Till” and “Freedom Riders” and Rory Kennedy’s “The Last Days ...

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 ...

is the Founding Associate Professor of African American and African Studies (AAAS) at Michigan State University. RSVP HERE to join the screening and conversation around Freedom Riders from the ...