Freedom Riders

Freedom Riders

117 mins | Documentary, History | Feb. 1, 2010

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.

Freedom Riders

117 mins | Documentary, History | Feb. 1, 2010

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.
IMDb rating 8.0
Producers American Experience Films
Original title Freedom Riders
Directors Stanley Nelson
Writers Stanley Nelson

Cast

Raymond Arsenault

as Self - Author of 'Freedom Riders'

Genevieve Houghton

as Self - Freedom Rider

Gordon Carey

as Self - Core staff

Derek Catsam

as Self - Historian

John Lewis

as Self - Freedom Rider

Diane Nash

as Self - Student, Fisk University

Charles Person

as Self - Freedom Rider

Sangernetta Gilbert Bush

as Self - Montgomery resident

John Seigenthaler

as Self - Nashville resident

Evan Thomas

as Self - Robert F. Kennedy biographer

John Patterson

as Self - Governor of Alabama 1959-1963

Clayborne Carson

as Self - Historian

James Lawson

as Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council

Jerry Ivor Moore

as Self - Freedom Rider

Hank Thomas

as Self - Freedom Rider

Moses Newson

as Self - Journalist (as Moses J. Newson)

Mae F. Moultrie Howard

as Self - Freedom Rider

Brandt Ayers

as Self - Journalist

Janie Forsyth McKinney

as Self - Anniston resident

Gary Thomas Rowe

as Self - FBI informant

Diane McWhorter

as Self - Writer

Ted Gaffney

as Self - Photographer

Harris Wofford

as Self - Assistant to President Kennedy

Jim Zwerg

as Self - Exchange student, Fisk University

Frederick Leonard

as Self - Student, Tennessee State University

C.T. Vivian

as Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council

Bernard LaFayette Jr.

as Self - Student, American Baptist Theological Seminary

William Harbour

as Self - Freedom Rider

Catherine Burks-Brooks

as Self - Freedom Rider

Delores Boyd

as Self - Montgomery resident

Tommy Giles

as Self - Aide to governor Patterson

Joan Mulholland

as Self - Freedom Rider

Ernest Patton Jr.

as Self - Freedom Rider (as Ernest 'Rip' Patton Jr.)

Pauline Knight-Ofosu

as Self - Freedom Rider

Israel Dresner

as Self - Rabbi, Freedom Rider

Glenda Gaither Davis

as Self - Freedom Rider