- Collection:
- American Experience
- Title:
- Freedom riders
- Contributor to Resource:
- PBS Online
- Date of Original:
- 2011
- Subject:
- Freedom Rides, 1961
African American civil rights workers--History--20th century
Civil rights workers--United States--History--20th century
African Americans--Segregation--Southern States--History--20th century
Segregation in transportation--Southern States--History--20th century
African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th century
Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century
Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century - Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- instructional materials
web sites
texts (document genres)
documentaries and factual works
study guides - Type:
- Collection
- Description:
- Web site companion to the episode of American Experience "Freedom Riders." The site explores the Freedom Rides. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives--and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment--for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way, sorely testing their belief in nonviolent activism. The film and site feature testimony from the Riders themselves, state and federal government officials, and journalists who witnessed the Rides firsthand. The two-hour documentary is based on Raymond Arsenault's book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/
- Contributing Institution:
- Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
- Rights:
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