Freedom Riders, the PBS documentary based on a landmark book by University of South Florida St. Petersburg Professor Ray Arsenault, was among three films credited for winning the American Experience ...

Originally produced as a documentary in 2010. Companion book: Freedom riders: 1961 and the struggle for racial justice / Raymond Arsenault, Oxford University Press, c2011 ; Abridged ed. Based in part ...

Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans ...

Charles Person, the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. Person was only 18 when he joined. In 1961, the Freedom Riders challenged racial segregation in the deep South by riding ...