The Civil War & Rights Critic's Corner Monday 'Freedom Riders ' 'Castle' Television Review Voices From the Buses on Road to Freedom inspire Arab protest leaders Riders' Filling in history's details Video recount Ala. attack 50 yrs later mark 50th anniversary An Explorer of Black History’s Uncharted Terrain Meet 2011 Student Rider Peter Davis Celebrates Heroes celebrated Students join original retrace 1961 challenge Southern segregation years see today’s youths as disconnected from racism fight Remembering Years Later remembered [VIDEO] Watch Anniversary

In the course of revieweing the Freedom Riders documentary slated to air tonight on PBS (which based on American Experience's track record, will be very good), Kansas City Star writer Aaron Barnhart nails a point about the Civil War that revisionists try to disappear: Race is the one ingredient that's indispensable to understanding America, yet [...] PBS revisits the civil rights movement, while 'Castle' ends its season with a big cliffhanger. Some freedom riders in Anniston, Ala., on May 14, 1961, after their bus was set on fire. Joan Mulholland was watching television one day when something flashed across the screen that gave her chills. RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Freedom Riders: An "American Experience" presentation. 9 p.m. Mon. on PBS. What is known at the time of historical events is often less than the full story. Years later, details may emerge that... The Freedom Riders recount the story of their narrow escape from a terrifying mob attack on their bus in Anniston, Ala. Russ Mitchell reports on the 50th anniversary of a violent milestone in the struggle for civil rights. Hank Thomas, was one of the "Freedom Riders" on the bus burned by Ku Klux Klan members, spoke with Russ Mitchell on the 50th anniversary of that day. Stanley Nelson's "Freedom Riders" tells the story of civil rights activists fighting against segregation. Director Stanley Nelson tells the Conversation their story of bravery. CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 9 (UPI) -- Storytelling, a documentary screening and a route retracing will be part of a "Freedom Riders" 50th anniversary program in Charlotte, N.C., organizers say. JACKSON, MISS. — A half-dozen blacks and whites sat with boxed sandwiches and sweet tea in a community center on a recent afternoon, wrestling with what's changed — and what hasn't — since the Freedom Riders came to town 50 years ago. "We're still trying to see each other as human," said Albert Sykes, a 28-year- old black man. "We're still struggling with this." On Mother's Day, 1961, a bus full of young people was firebombed in Anniston, Ala. The passengers were black and white, one of several groups that rode from Washington, D.C., to force the integration of interstate transportation on a reluctant South. Read full article >> Fifty years ago, seven black people boarded buses with six white people in Washington, D.C., and took the fight for civil rights to the Deep South. Their trip became known as the Freedom Rides and a new documentary by Stanley Nelson talks with the people who witnessed the rides firsthand. Freedom Riders celebrated: PBS is airing a new film called 'Freedom Riders' and students are retracing the Freedom Rides on this 50th anniversary of a turning point in the US civil rights movement. On May 4, 1961 they began a bus ride across the South to fight segregation.
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