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Riding to Freedom
In the spring of 1961, black and white civil rights activists rode buses to protest the segregationist policies of the Deep South. (05:03)
Script and narration: Marian Holmes
Production and editing: Brian Wolly
Photos courtesy of Corbis, Getty Images and Library of Congress:
Audio clips courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways: www.si.edu/folkways
Related:
The Freedom Riders, Then and Now
Fighting racial segregation in the South, these activists were beaten and arrested. Where are they now, nearly fifty years later?
February 2009 |
By Marian Smith Holmes
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Comments (3)
I thought it real was interasting because in class we are studing civil right and I am doing the Freedom rider I what to know even more because after hearing this know I am real interasted.
Posted by penoxibird on March 24,2012 | 05:34 PM
this is a nice movie about the fredom riders.
Posted by lajeffery on March 4,2011 | 09:00 AM
i love this movie it show a lot of stuff bout the past.
Posted by porcha on May 13,2010 | 03:50 PM