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Freedom Riders

76 %|Feb 1, 2010|Documentary, History

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.

Featured Crew

Stanley Nelson
Writer
Lewis Erskine
Editor
Aljernon Tunsil
Editor
Stanley Nelson
Director
Laurens Grant
Producer
Stanley Nelson
Producer
Mark Samels
Executive Producer

Cast

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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