Freedom Riders

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Freedom Riders

2010

1h 57m

7.6(10 votes)

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This is the story of more than four hundred Americans who participated in a bold and dangerous experiment designed to awaken the conscience of a complacent nation. These self-proclaimed, 'Freedom Riders' challenged the mores of a racially segregated society by performing a disarmingly simple act.

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36 members

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Raymond Arsenault

Self - Author of 'Freedom Riders'

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Genevieve Houghton

Self - Freedom Rider

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Gordon Carey

Self - Core staff

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Derek Catsam

Self - Historian

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John Lewis

Self - Freedom Rider

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Diane Nash

Self - Student, Fisk University

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Charles Person

Self - Freedom Rider

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Sangernetta Gilbert Bush

Self - Montgomery resident

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John Seigenthaler

Self - Nashville resident

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Evan Thomas

Self - Robert F. Kennedy biographer

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John Patterson

Self - Governor of Alabama 1959-1963

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Clayborne Carson

Self - Historian

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James Lawson

Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council

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Jerry Ivor Moore

Self - Freedom Rider

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Hank Thomas

Self - Freedom Rider

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Moses Newson

Self - Journalist (as Moses J. Newson)

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Mae F. Moultrie Howard

Self - Freedom Rider

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Brandt Ayers

Self - Journalist

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Janie Forsyth McKinney

Self - Anniston resident

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Gary Thomas Rowe

Self - FBI informant

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Diane McWhorter

Self - Writer

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Ted Gaffney

Self - Photographer

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Harris Wofford

Self - Assistant to President Kennedy

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Jim Zwerg

Self - Exchange student, Fisk University

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Frederick Leonard

Self - Student, Tennessee State University

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C.T. Vivian

Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council

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Bernard LaFayette Jr.

Self - Student, American Baptist Theological Seminary

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William Harbour

Self - Freedom Rider

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Catherine Burks-Brooks

Self - Freedom Rider

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Delores Boyd

Self - Montgomery resident

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Tommy Giles

Self - Aide to governor Patterson

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Joan Mulholland

Self - Freedom Rider

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Ernest Patton Jr.

Self - Freedom Rider (as Ernest 'Rip' Patton Jr.)

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Pauline Knight-Ofosu

Self - Freedom Rider

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Israel Dresner

Self - Rabbi, Freedom Rider

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Glenda Gaither Davis

Self - Freedom Rider

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