Freedom Riders

  • Documentary
  • History
2/1/2010
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Storyline

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.

Director:
Stanley Nelson
Writer:
Stanley Nelson

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      Cast

      • Raymond Arsenault
        Self - Author of 'Freedom Riders'
      • Genevieve Houghton
        Self - Freedom Rider
      • Gordon Carey
        Self - Core staff
      • Derek Catsam
        Self - Historian
      • John Lewis
        Self - Freedom Rider
      • Diane Nash
        Self - Student, Fisk University
      • Charles Person
        Self - Freedom Rider
      • Sangernetta Gilbert Bush
        Self - Montgomery resident
      • John Seigenthaler
        Self - Nashville resident
      • Evan Thomas
        Self - Robert F. Kennedy biographer
      • John Patterson
        Self - Governor of Alabama 1959-1963
      • Clayborne Carson
        Self - Historian
      • James Lawson
        Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council
      • Jerry Ivor Moore
        Self - Freedom Rider
      • Hank Thomas
        Self - Freedom Rider
      • Moses Newson
        Self - Journalist (as Moses J. Newson)

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