Tuesday, January 24
12 noon–2 pm, 324 Blunt Alumni Center
Brown bag lunch; beverages and dessert provided
Threatened. Attacked. Jailed. Could you get on the bus? In 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives—many enduring savage beatings and imprisonment—by 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. This documentary from award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson is based on Raymond Arsenault’s book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, and is an official selection of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
For more information about this film, please visit www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/about.
