Freedom Riders

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.

• Stanley NelsonWriter
• Stanley NelsonDirector

• Raymond ArsenaultSelf - Author of 'Freedom Riders'
• Genevieve HoughtonSelf - Freedom Rider
• Gordon CareySelf - Core staff
• Derek CatsamSelf - Historian
• John LewisSelf - Freedom Rider
• Diane NashSelf - Student, Fisk University
• Charles PersonSelf - Freedom Rider
• Sangernetta Gilbert BushSelf - Montgomery resident
• John SeigenthalerSelf - Nashville resident
• Evan ThomasSelf - Robert F. Kennedy biographer
• John PattersonSelf - Governor of Alabama 1959-1963
• Clayborne CarsonSelf - Historian