Freedom Riders
7.6
117 minutes
2/1/2010
Overview
This is the story of more than four hundred Americans who participated in a bold and dangerous experiment designed to awaken the conscience of a complacent nation. These self-proclaimed, 'Freedom Riders' challenged the mores of a racially segregated society by performing a disarmingly simple act.
Cast List
Raymond Arsenault
as Self - Author of 'Freedom Riders'
Genevieve Houghton
as Self - Freedom Rider
Gordon Carey
as Self - Core staff
Derek Catsam
as Self - Historian
John Lewis
as Self - Freedom Rider
Diane Nash
as Self - Student, Fisk University
Charles Person
as Self - Freedom Rider
Sangernetta Gilbert Bush
as Self - Montgomery resident
John Seigenthaler
as Self - Nashville resident
Evan Thomas
as Self - Robert F. Kennedy biographer
John Patterson
as Self - Governor of Alabama 1959-1963
Clayborne Carson
as Self - Historian
James Lawson
as Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council
Jerry Ivor Moore
as Self - Freedom Rider
Hank Thomas
as Self - Freedom Rider
Moses Newson
as Self - Journalist (as Moses J. Newson)
Mae F. Moultrie Howard
as Self - Freedom Rider
Brandt Ayers
as Self - Journalist
Janie Forsyth McKinney
as Self - Anniston resident
Gary Thomas Rowe
as Self - FBI informant
Diane McWhorter
as Self - Writer
Ted Gaffney
as Self - Photographer
Harris Wofford
as Self - Assistant to President Kennedy
Jim Zwerg
as Self - Exchange student, Fisk University
Frederick Leonard
as Self - Student, Tennessee State University
C.T. Vivian
as Self - Nashville Christian Leadership Council
Bernard LaFayette Jr.
as Self - Student, American Baptist Theological Seminary
William Harbour
as Self - Freedom Rider
Catherine Burks-Brooks
as Self - Freedom Rider
Delores Boyd
as Self - Montgomery resident
Tommy Giles
as Self - Aide to governor Patterson
Joan Mulholland
as Self - Freedom Rider
Ernest Patton Jr.
as Self - Freedom Rider (as Ernest 'Rip' Patton Jr.)
Pauline Knight-Ofosu
as Self - Freedom Rider
Israel Dresner
as Self - Rabbi, Freedom Rider
Glenda Gaither Davis
as Self - Freedom Rider