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Articles Tagged "Freedom Rides"

  • Thu., May 5, 2011 5:08pm
    Freedom Rides Again
    Forty college students, including two from Georgia, are retracing a seminal Civil Rights-era journey. Fifty years divides the two trips, but the students will depart from Washington, D.C., just as the original Freedom Riders did in 1961. As the students prepare for the bus trip, they are learning how much the Freedom Rides changed life in America.
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  • Tue., December 21, 2010 3:07pm
    'Freedom Riders': Documentary Retraces Bus Rides To End Segregation
    The film, "Freedom Riders," recounts the 1961 crusade by daring young activists intent on ending segregated travel on interstate buses in the Deep South. The American Experience film, set to air May 16 on PBS, has been generating buzz on the film festival circuit ever since its showing at Sundance in January.
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