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Freedom Riders

2010

1h 57m

7.60

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.

Cast

John Lewis

Self - Freedom Rider

Diane Nash

Self - Student, Fisk University

John Seigenthaler

Self - Nashville resident

Raymond Arsenault

Self - Author of 'Freedom Riders'

Genevieve Houghton

Self - Freedom Rider

Gordon Carey

Self - Core staff

Derek Catsam

Self - Historian

Charles Person

Self - Freedom Rider

Sangernetta Gilbert Bush

Self - Montgomery 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)

Mae F. Moultrie Howard

Self - Freedom Rider

Brandt Ayers

Self - Journalist

Janie Forsyth McKinney

Self - Anniston resident

Gary Thomas Rowe

Self - FBI informant

Diane McWhorter

Self - Writer

Ted Gaffney

Self - Photographer

Harris Wofford

Self - Assistant to President Kennedy

Jim Zwerg

Self - Exchange student, Fisk University

Frederick Leonard

Self - Student, Tennessee State University

C.T. Vivian

Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council

Bernard LaFayette Jr.

Self - Student, American Baptist Theological Seminary

William Harbour

Self - Freedom Rider

Catherine Burks-Brooks

Self - Freedom Rider

Delores Boyd

Self - Montgomery resident

Tommy Giles

Self - Aide to governor Patterson

Joan Mulholland

Self - Freedom Rider

Ernest Patton Jr.

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

Pauline Knight-Ofosu

Self - Freedom Rider

Israel Dresner

Self - Rabbi, Freedom Rider

Glenda Gaither Davis

Self - Freedom Rider

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John Lewis

Diane Nash

John Seigenthaler

Raymond Arsenault

Genevieve Houghton

Gordon Carey

Derek Catsam

Charles Person

Sangernetta Gilbert Bush

Evan Thomas

John Patterson

Clayborne Carson

James Lawson

Jerry Ivor Moore

Hank Thomas

Moses Newson

Mae F. Moultrie Howard

Brandt Ayers

Janie Forsyth McKinney

Gary Thomas Rowe

Diane McWhorter

Ted Gaffney

Harris Wofford

Jim Zwerg

Frederick Leonard

C.T. Vivian

Bernard LaFayette Jr.

William Harbour

Catherine Burks-Brooks

Delores Boyd

Tommy Giles

Joan Mulholland

Ernest Patton Jr.

Pauline Knight-Ofosu

Israel Dresner

Glenda Gaither Davis

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