NewsMakers
#1413 Autobiography of a Freedom Rider
Season 14 Episode 13 | 26m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Autobiography of a Freedom Rider
On May 4th, 1961 - 13 black and white Freedom Riders boarded a Greyhound and Trailways bus. It was a challenge to segregation laws of the Deep South. That’s where federal laws prohibiting the segregation of interstate travel were ignored. What followed changed the course of American history. We discuss the Freedom Riders non-violence strategy with the author of the book Thomas Armstrong.
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NewsMakers is a local public television program presented by WGVU
NewsMakers
#1413 Autobiography of a Freedom Rider
Season 14 Episode 13 | 26m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
On May 4th, 1961 - 13 black and white Freedom Riders boarded a Greyhound and Trailways bus. It was a challenge to segregation laws of the Deep South. That’s where federal laws prohibiting the segregation of interstate travel were ignored. What followed changed the course of American history. We discuss the Freedom Riders non-violence strategy with the author of the book Thomas Armstrong.
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