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DESCRIPTION:Screening and discussion of Freedom Riders," a documentary about the 
 hundreds of Black and white youth who traveled by buses and trains to the 
 Deep South in 1961 to challenge Jim Crow Laws.  Directed by Stanley 
 Nelson.\n\nFREEDOM 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 
 risked their lives—and many endured savage beatings and 
 imprisonment—for 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.\n\nEach time the 
 Freedom Rides met violence and the campaign seemed doomed, new ways were 
 found to sustain and even expand the movement. After Klansmen in Alabama 
 set fire to the original Freedom Ride bus, student activists from Nashville 
 organized a ride of their own. "We were past fear. If we were going to die, 
 we were gonna die, but we can't stop," recalls Rider Joan 
 Trumpauer-Mulholland. "If one person falls, others take their 
 place."\n\nLater, Mississippi officials locked up more than 300 Riders in 
 the notorious Parchman State Penitentiary. Rather than weaken the Riders' 
 resolve, the move only strengthened their determination.\n\nFrom 
 award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson (Wounded Knee, Jonestown: The Life 
 and Death of Peoples Temple, The Murder of Emmett Till) FREEDOM RIDERS 
 features testimony from a fascinating cast of central characters: the 
 Riders themselves, state and federal government officials, and journalists 
 who witnessed the Rides firsthand. The two-hour documentary is based on 
 Raymond Arsenault's book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial 
 Justice. \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/13/18758553.php
SUMMARY:Screening of "Freedom Riders" 7-31-14
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2425 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/13/18758553.php
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