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Freedom Riders: American Experience

The story of the 1961 Freedom Riders.

120 min.

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The story of the 1961 Freedom Riders, civil-rights activists who confronted the Jim Crow laws that remained the status quo at interstate travel facilities in the South despite two Supreme Court rulings that declared them unconstitutional.


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