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Freedom Riders

Directed by Stanley Nelson
2010    1h 57m    Not Rated
Documentary, History
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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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Cast of Freedom Riders
  • Raymond ArsenaultSelf - Author of 'Freedom Riders'
  • Genevieve HoughtonSelf - Freedom Rider
  • Gordon CareySelf - Core staff
  • Derek CatsamSelf - Historian
  • John LewisSelf - Freedom Rider
  • Diane NashSelf - Student, Fisk University
  • Charles PersonSelf - Freedom Rider
  • Sangernetta Gilbert BushSelf - Montgomery resident
  • John SeigenthalerSelf - Nashville resident
  • Evan ThomasSelf - Robert F. Kennedy biographer
  • John PattersonSelf - Governor of Alabama 1959-1963
  • Clayborne CarsonSelf - Historian
  • James LawsonSelf - Nashville Christian Leadership Council
  • Jerry Ivor MooreSelf - Freedom Rider
  • Hank ThomasSelf - Freedom Rider
  • Moses NewsonSelf - Journalist (as Moses J. Newson)
  • Mae F. Moultrie HowardSelf - Freedom Rider
  • Brandt AyersSelf - Journalist
  • Janie Forsyth McKinneySelf - Anniston resident
  • Gary Thomas RoweSelf - FBI informant
  • Diane McWhorterSelf - Writer
  • Ted GaffneySelf - Photographer
  • Harris WoffordSelf - Assistant to President Kennedy
  • Jim ZwergSelf - Exchange student, Fisk University
  • Frederick LeonardSelf - Student, Tennessee State University
  • C.T. VivianSelf - Nashville Christian Leadership Council
  • Bernard LaFayette Jr.Self - Student, American Baptist Theological Seminary
  • William HarbourSelf - Freedom Rider
  • Catherine Burks-BrooksSelf - Freedom Rider
  • Delores BoydSelf - Montgomery resident
  • Tommy GilesSelf - Aide to governor Patterson
  • Joan MulhollandSelf - Freedom Rider
  • Ernest Patton Jr.Self - Freedom Rider (as Ernest 'Rip' Patton Jr.)
  • Pauline Knight-OfosuSelf - Freedom Rider
  • Israel DresnerSelf - Rabbi, Freedom Rider
  • Glenda Gaither DavisSelf - Freedom Rider

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