Video: Freedom Riders: American Experience
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Jim Lawson on the Victory For Nonviolence | PBS (#2311)
Jim Lawson speaks about nonviolence training in Washington, DC and Nashville, TN. 01:16
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: John Seigenthaler on Democracy in Action | PBS (#2311)
John Seigenthaler speaks about Martin Luther King liberating black and white Americans. 01:31
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Rev. C.T. Vivian on Jim Crow Laws | PBS (#2311)
Reverend C.T. Vivian speaks about why blacks were resisting oppression in the 1960s. 02:28
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Rev. C.T. Vivian on Democracy in Action | PBS (#2311)
Reverend C.T. Vivian speaks about Robert F. Kennedy asking for a cooling off period. 00:58
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Rev. C.T. Vivian on the Solid South | PBS (#2311)
Reverend C.T. Vivian speaks about the Kennedys' response to the Freedom Riders. 01:00
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Rev. C.T. Vivian on the Victory of Nonviolence | PBS (#2311)
Reverend C.T. Vivian speaks about the effect of employing non-violent tactics. 02:56
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Janie McKinney on Jim Crow Laws | PBS (#2311)
Janie McKinney speaks about the Southern society as a house of cards. 00:38
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Glenda Davis on the Spirit of the Times | PBS (#2311)
Glanda Davis speaks about white people thinking about segregation in a different way. 01:30
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Glenda Davis on The Media | PBS (#2311)
Glenda Davis speaks about the Southern white press. 00:59
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Glenda Davis on Jim Crow Laws | PBS (#2311)
Glenda Davis speaks about her childhood and Jim Crow laws. 00:59
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: John Patterson on Slow Progress | PBS (#2311)
John Patterson speaks about the slow progress of integration. 01:41
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: John Patterson on Jim Crow Laws | PBS (#2311)
John Patterson speaks about Jim Crow Laws. 01:29
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: William Harbour on His Freedom Ride | PBS (#2311)
William Harbour speaks about his Freedom Ride and Bull Connor 02:28
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Hank Thomas on the Cold War | PBS (#2311)
Hank Thomas speaks about it being easier to drive across East Berlin than the South. 00:58
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Hank Thomas on Meeting White Students | PBS (#2311)
Hank Thomas talks about meeting with white students from American University. 02:07
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: John Patterson on the Freedom Ride in Anniston | PBS (#2311)
John Patterson speaks about the Freedom Ride in Anniston. 01:37
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: John Patterson on the South | PBS (#2311)
John Patterson speaks about JFK carrying the Solid South. 01:12
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Israel Dresner on His Freedom Ride | PBS (#2311)
Israel Dresner speaks about joining the Freedom Rides. 01:20
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Hank Thomas on The Media | PBS (#2311)
Hank Thomas speaks about dressing well during the Freedom Rides. 01:54
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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Israel Dresner on the Solid South | PBS (#2311)
Israel Dresner speaks about the Solid South. 01:13
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