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On May 16, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE will premiere Freedom Riders, a film about the 436 Americans who risked their lives by deliberately violating Jim Crow laws in the Deep South in the summer of 1961.
This Wednesday, May 4, Oprah Winfrey will dedicate her entire program to the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Freedom Rides. The Oprah episode will highlight clips from the film as well as selections of content from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Freedom Riders website.
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A dark and dangerous pool lurking below the present: what better way to describe My Lai? Not a month goes by, it seems, that we don’t hear about a controversial killing of civilians in Iraq or Afghanistan, our present-day wars.
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