Seconds before a mob of white segregationists attacked Jim Zwerg and other Freedom Riders in front of a Montgomery bus station, he said a simple, silent prayer. “I asked God to be with me, and to give ...
Freedom Riders, the PBS documentary based on a landmark book by University of South Florida St. Petersburg Professor Ray Arsenault, was among three films credited for winning the American Experience ...
Originally produced as a documentary in 2010. Companion book: Freedom riders: 1961 and the struggle for racial justice / Raymond Arsenault, Oxford University Press, c2011 ; Abridged ed. Based in part ...
When "Son of the South" opens Friday, Jim Zwerg's role as a Freedom Rider will be shown on screens across the country. But it may be a while before he’s able to see the film. “I haven’t seen a movie ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Freedom Riders who were attacked in Alabama's capital city on May 20, 1961, returned 50 years later to be hailed as heroes and have a museum dedicated at the old bus station where ...
The cast for = Freedom Riders: The Civil Rights Musical, has been officially revealed. This musical event will take place at the City College Center for the Arts in Aaron Davis Hall – Marian Anderson ...
Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died Jan. 8 in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82. In 1961, 18 ...
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