Catch the Freedom Riders on PBS Channel 11 on Monday, May 16th at 8 p.m. If you don’t know about the Freedom Riders and what they stood for, start your education here. Image: 12 us post The […]
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Traveling Down Freedom’s Main Line: The Freedom Rides at 50 – May 7th
Take time from your busy schedule to learn more about the Freedom Riders, a group of over 400 young people – mostly American – who risked their lives to desegregate travel down South in the 1960s. This is their […]
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Freedom Riders: Screening and Discussion at DuSable Museum – April 9, 2011
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Riders, WGBH Boston’s American Experience has produced the documentary Freedom Riders-based on an award-winning book by Raymond Arsenault, PhD. On Saturday, April 9, 2011 award-winning director Stanley Nelson and Freedom Riders […]
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