Midway between the 1954 Brown school desegregation decision and the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, the Freedom Rides captured the zeitgeist of the decade to come.
The Freedom Rides were one of the earliest demonstrations that Gandhian principles of nonviolence could be effective in the civil rights movement.
The Freedom Rides brought together people of different races, religions, cultures, and economic backgrounds from across the United States.
Meet some of the key figures of Freedom Riders.
Meet the key members of the US government featured in Freedom Riders.
Meet the movement leaders featured in Freedom Riders.
Meet the Freedom Riders.
Meet the key players involved in the assassintation of Abraham Lincoln.
Filmmaker Barak Goodman describes making The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, including dramatic recreations of the manhunt forJohn Wilkes Booth.
Images of Abraham Lincoln as he lay dying filled the popular press in the days following the assassination.Â
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Over the next twelve days, the largest manhunt ever attempted closed in on his assassin.
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