From the film Freedom Riders: Janie McKinney on The...
Janie McKinney speaks about Southerners angered by the Federal Government changing their society.
From the film Freedom Riders: Bernard Lafayette on...
Bernard Lafayette speaks about nonviolence as a response.
From the film Freedom Riders: Ray Arsenault on Democracy...
Ray Arsenault speaks about the ICC desegregation order.
From the film Freedom Riders: Pauline Knight-Ofuso on...
Pauline Knight-Ofuso speaks about difficulties for black people traveling in the South.
From the film Freedom Riders: Jim Lawson on the Victory...
Jim Lawson speaks about nonviolence training in Washington, DC and Nashville, TN.
From the film Freedom Riders: Rev. C.T. Vivian on the...
Reverend C.T. Vivian speaks about the effect of employing non-violent tactics.
From the film Freedom Riders: Jerry Moore on Jim Crow Laws
Jerry Moore explains the purpose of the Freedom Rides.
From the film Freedom Riders: Jim Lawson on The Cold War
Jim Lawson speaks about JFK and the Cold War as a critical issue facing the U.S.
From the film Freedom Riders: Bernard Lafayette on His...
Bernard Lafayette speaks about traveling from Montgomery, Alabama into Mississippi.
From the film Freedom Riders: Catherine Burks-Brooks on...
Catherine Burks-Brooks speaks about being expelled from Tennessee State.
From the film Freedom Riders: Bernard Lafayette on The...
Bernard Lafayette speaks about acting from his conscience and training in Nashville.
From the film Freedom Riders: John Patterson on Slow...
John Patterson speaks about the slow progress of integration.
From the film Freedom Riders: Hank Thomas on the Cold War
Hank Thomas speaks about it being easier to drive across East Berlin than the American South.
From the film Freedom Riders: Israel Dresner on the Solid...
Israel Dresner speaks about the Solid South.
From the film Freedom Riders: Glenda Davis on Jim Crow Laws
Glenda Davis speaks about her childhood and Jim Crow laws.
From the film Freedom Riders: Israel Dresner on His...
Israel Dresner speaks about joining the Freedom Rides.
From the film Freedom Riders: Glenda Davis on The Media
Glenda Davis speaks about the Southern white press.
From the film Freedom Riders: Glenda Davis on the Spirit...
Glanda Davis speaks about white people thinking about segregation in a different way.
From the film Freedom Riders: John Patterson on the South
John Patterson speaks about JFK carrying the Solid South.
From the film Freedom Riders: Hank Thomas on Meeting...
Hank Thomas talks about meeting with white students from American University.
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