Iowa Public Television

• Related Video

• Now Playing

  American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)

  Israel Dresner speaks about Nonviolence. 01:47

• Play Video

  American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)

  Full Program: The story behind civil rights activists who challenged segregation in the American South. 01:51:49

• Play Video

  American Experience | Kaitlyn... (#2311)

  An introductory video to Kaitlyn Whiteside, one of the forty 2011 Student Freedom Riders. 00:23

• Play Video

  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

• Play Video

  American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)

  The original Freedom Riders revisit the site of their 1961 arrest in Jackson, MS. 01:34

• Play Video

  American Experience | The Music:... (#2311)

  Group singing provided solace for Freedom Riders. 05:05

• Play Video

  American Experience | The... (#2311)

  Future Freedom Riders trained in Nashville by role-playing nonviolence. 04:16

• Play Video

  American Experience | The... (#2311)

  Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent movement inspired American civil rights activists. 03:29

• Play Video

  American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)

  Genevieve Hughes speaks about press coverage increasing due to the violence. 00:46

• Play Video

  American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)

  Rabbi Dresser and Delore Boyd comment on the power of nonviolent methods. 01:07

• Play Video

  American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)

  Freedom Riders participated in CORE training sessions before getting on the bus. 02:09

• Play Video

  American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)

  Michellay Cole's Diary of a Freedom Rider interviews three of the Original Freedom Riders. 01:50

• Play Video

  American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)

  Reporter Herb Kaplow recounts his experience when covering the Freedom Riders. 01:14

• Play Video

  American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)

  Scenes of bloody violence are reported across the country. 01:06

• Play Video

  American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)

  2011 Student Freedom Rider Robert Sgrignoli shares his perspective. 03:00

• Play Video

  American Experience | The Student... (#2311)

  Diane Nash became the leader of the Nashville Student Movement. 04:48

• Play Video

  American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)

  Student Rajlakshmi De talks to Freedom Rider Helen Singleton about her own mother. 02:28

• Play Video

  American Experience | The... (#2311)

  Patterson discusses his response to the Freedom Rides. 04:43

• Play Video

  American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)

  Student rider Tariq Meyers draws parallels between the 2011 Riders and the story of Jacob. 03:00

• Play Video

  American Experience | Freedom... (#2311)

  "As human beings, we have a right to truth," says Alicia Skeeter. 01:43

• Watch more video from this program

Post Date: January 18, 2011