FREEDOM RIDERS (2010)
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Freedom Riders
Documentary, History
February 1, 2010
English
1h 57m
United States
American Experience Films
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 & Characters
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
Crew
Stanley Nelson
Director
Stanley Nelson
Writer
Stanley Nelson
Producer
Laurens Grant
Producer
Mark Samels
Executive Producer