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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...