February 1, 2010
117 minutes
DocumentaryHistory
Freedom Riders
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
Raymond Arsenault
(Self - Author of 'Freedom Riders')
Genevieve Houghton
(Self - Freedom Rider)
Gordon Carey
(Self - Core staff)
Derek Catsam
(Self - Historian)
John Lewis
(Self - Freedom Rider)
Diane Nash
(Self - Student, Fisk University)
Charles Person
(Self - Freedom Rider)
Sangernetta Gilbert Bush
(Self - Montgomery resident)
John Seigenthaler
(Self - Nashville 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)
