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Freedom Riders
1 hour 57 minutes2010-02-01
7.6
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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.
Cast
![Raymond Arsenault](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Raymond Arsenault
Self - Author of 'Freedom Riders'
![Genevieve Houghton](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Genevieve Houghton
Self - Freedom Rider
![Gordon Carey](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Gordon Carey
Self - Core staff
![Derek Catsam](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Derek Catsam
Self - Historian
![John Lewis](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//zOSZIQlXXNiumjSfL15j1UU3o1W.jpg)
John Lewis
Self - Freedom Rider
![Diane Nash](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//bYxCMIR6a5UqxZlVkxZCLlwruev.jpg)
Diane Nash
Self - Student, Fisk University
![Charles Person](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Charles Person
Self - Freedom Rider
![Sangernetta Gilbert Bush](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Sangernetta Gilbert Bush
Self - Montgomery resident
![John Seigenthaler](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//vlHFghQ6rDK5VIt0z2QdBQaJo4L.jpg)
John Seigenthaler
Self - Nashville resident
![Evan Thomas](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Evan Thomas
Self - Robert F. Kennedy biographer
![John Patterson](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
John Patterson
Self - Governor of Alabama 1959-1963
![Clayborne Carson](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Clayborne Carson
Self - Historian
![James Lawson](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
James Lawson
Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council
![Jerry Ivor Moore](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Jerry Ivor Moore
Self - Freedom Rider
![Hank Thomas](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Hank Thomas
Self - Freedom Rider
![Moses Newson](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Moses Newson
Self - Journalist (as Moses J. Newson)
![Mae F. Moultrie Howard](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Mae F. Moultrie Howard
Self - Freedom Rider
![Brandt Ayers](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Brandt Ayers
Self - Journalist
![Janie Forsyth McKinney](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Janie Forsyth McKinney
Self - Anniston resident
![Gary Thomas Rowe](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Gary Thomas Rowe
Self - FBI informant
![Diane McWhorter](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Diane McWhorter
Self - Writer
![Ted Gaffney](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Ted Gaffney
Self - Photographer
![Harris Wofford](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Harris Wofford
Self - Assistant to President Kennedy
![Jim Zwerg](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Jim Zwerg
Self - Exchange student, Fisk University
![Frederick Leonard](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Frederick Leonard
Self - Student, Tennessee State University
![C.T. Vivian](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
C.T. Vivian
Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council
![Bernard LaFayette Jr.](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Bernard LaFayette Jr.
Self - Student, American Baptist Theological Seminary
![William Harbour](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
William Harbour
Self - Freedom Rider
![Catherine Burks-Brooks](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Catherine Burks-Brooks
Self - Freedom Rider
![Delores Boyd](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Delores Boyd
Self - Montgomery resident
![Tommy Giles](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Tommy Giles
Self - Aide to governor Patterson
![Joan Mulholland](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Joan Mulholland
Self - Freedom Rider
![Ernest Patton Jr.](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Ernest Patton Jr.
Self - Freedom Rider (as Ernest 'Rip' Patton Jr.)
![Pauline Knight-Ofosu](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Pauline Knight-Ofosu
Self - Freedom Rider
![Israel Dresner](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Israel Dresner
Self - Rabbi, Freedom Rider
![Glenda Gaither Davis](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)