American Experience | The Inspiration: A Short Film from Freedom Riders | PBS
Duration: 03:29
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Freedom Riders: American Experience #2311
Broadcast Date: Aug. 17, 2008
Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent movement to free India from British colonial rule inspired American civil rights activists who had immersed themselves in Ghandi's teachings and viewed non-violence as an effective way to challenge the tyranny of the Jim Crow South.
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American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)
Full Program: The story behind civil rights activists who challenged segregation in the American South. 01:51:49
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American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)
Israel Dresner speaks about Nonviolence. 01:47
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American Experience | Kaitlyn... (#2311)
An introductory video to Kaitlyn Whiteside, one of the forty 2011 Student Freedom Riders. 00:23
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American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)
Former civil rights activists raised in the South recount how their commitment to nonviolence was sorely tested by the... 04:56
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The original Freedom Riders revisit the site of their 1961 arrest in Jackson, MS. 01:34
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American Experience | The Music:... (#2311)
Group singing provided solace for Freedom Riders. 05:05
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American Experience | The... (#2311)
Future Freedom Riders trained in Nashville by role-playing nonviolence. 04:16
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Genevieve Hughes speaks about press coverage increasing due to the violence. 00:46
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Rabbi Dresser and Delore Boyd comment on the power of nonviolent methods. 01:07
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Freedom Riders participated in CORE training sessions before getting on the bus. 02:09
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Michellay Cole's Diary of a Freedom Rider interviews three of the Original Freedom Riders. 01:50
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Reporter Herb Kaplow recounts his experience when covering the Freedom Riders. 01:14
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Scenes of bloody violence are reported across the country. 01:06
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2011 Student Freedom Rider Robert Sgrignoli shares his perspective. 03:00
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American Experience | The Student... (#2311)
Diane Nash became the leader of the Nashville Student Movement. 04:48
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American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)
Student Rajlakshmi De talks to Freedom Rider Helen Singleton about her own mother. 02:28
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American Experience | The... (#2311)
Patterson discusses his response to the Freedom Rides. 04:43
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Student rider Tariq Meyers draws parallels between the 2011 Riders and the story of Jacob. 03:00
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"As human beings, we have a right to truth," says Alicia Skeeter. 01:43
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