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Film / 2010
Freedom Riders
Directed by
Stanley Nelson
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.
The story
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
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
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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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