Freedom Riders

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.

Documentary History

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)

C.T. Vivian

(Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council)

Bernard LaFayette Jr.

(Self - Student, American Baptist Theological Seminary)

William Harbour

(Self - Freedom Rider)

Catherine Burks-Brooks

(Self - Freedom Rider)

Delores Boyd

(Self - Montgomery resident)

Tommy Giles

(Self - Aide to governor Patterson)

Joan Mulholland

(Self - Freedom Rider)

Ernest Patton Jr.

(Self - Freedom Rider (as Ernest 'Rip' Patton Jr.))

Pauline Knight-Ofosu

(Self - Freedom Rider)

Israel Dresner

(Self - Rabbi, Freedom Rider)

Glenda Gaither Davis

(Self - Freedom Rider)