JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The film, "Freedom Riders," recounts the 1961 crusade by daring young activists intent on ending segregated travel on interstate buses in the Deep South... JACKSON, Miss.

The story of the Freedom Riders movement is one which which most ... impossibly over-the-top had it been written into a fiction film. Narrating the events in day-by-day segments, Nelson is ...

The documentary “Freedom Riders,” which revisits a group of young men and women who boarded commercial buses headed for the Deep South during the Civil Rights Movement, airs Monday on ...

As a white Freedom Rider, Jim Zwerg sustained severe injuries. After deciding to participate in the Freedom Rides in May 1961, Jim Zwerg called his parents for support only to be told that he was ...

The much-anticipated documentary “Freedom Riders,” which tells the story of a group of civil rights activists who 50 years ago challenged segregation in the American South, premieres at 9 p.m. EDT on ...

Those are just some of the things we learn in "Freedom Riders," a superb "American Experience" documentary by Stanley Nelson that will be shown 50 years after groups of black and white Americans ...

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 ...

“Freedom Riders” that follows the activists’ journey. The event takes place on Thursday at 6 p.m. in the CR Forum Theater. The film follows the activists’ trip, meant to take them from ...

Overcoming the limitations of a familiar format thanks to the sheer heroism of its tale, "Freedom Riders ... with the riders move the action forward, but much of the film’s gravity comes ...

The Created Equal community conversation series will start with a screening of Stanley Nelson's Freedom Riders (2010, 117 mins.) on at 6 p.m. Thursday at the South Dallas Cultural Center ...