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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  Stanley Nelson

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  Raymond Arsenault
  Self - Author of 'Freedom Riders'
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  Genevieve Houghton
  Self - Freedom Rider
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  Gordon Carey
  Self - Core staff
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  Derek Catsam
  Self - Historian
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  John Lewis
  Self - Freedom Rider
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  Diane Nash
  Self - Student, Fisk University
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  Charles Person
  Self - Freedom Rider
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  Sangernetta Gilbert Bush
  Self - Montgomery resident
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  John Seigenthaler
  Self - Nashville resident
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  Evan Thomas
  Self - Robert F. Kennedy biographer
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  John Patterson
  Self - Governor of Alabama 1959-1963
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  Clayborne Carson
  Self - Historian
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  James Lawson
  Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council
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  Jerry Ivor Moore
  Self - Freedom Rider
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  Hank Thomas
  Self - Freedom Rider
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  Moses Newson
  Self - Journalist (as Moses J. Newson)
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  Mae F. Moultrie Howard
  Self - Freedom Rider
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  Brandt Ayers
  Self - Journalist
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  Janie Forsyth McKinney
  Self - Anniston resident
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  Gary Thomas Rowe
  Self - FBI informant