For seven long months in 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives -- and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment -- for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way, sorely testing their belief in nonviolent activism. Veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson's documentary is the first feature-length film about this courageous band of civil-rights activists...
not to be missed...FREEDOM RIDERS: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE...8pm
Amarillo didn’t get any Freedom Riders, but we did have citizens who experienced segregation…check out OUR VOICES on our website for a local perspective of those days.
Straight2Jackie is out of the office this week…we return on Friday the 20th
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