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"Freedom Riders" A powerful story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever
Advance Screening and Community Conversation Featuring Veterans of the Southern Civil Rights Movement of the '60s
Date: Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Time: 7:00 pm
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Bush Memorial - Russell Sage Campus
Sponsored by: WMHT; The Sage Colleges Department of History and Society; The Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region; The Rensselaer County Historical Society
Contact: Andor Skotnes, 518-244-2021; skotna@sage.edu
Fifty years ago, more than 400 courageous Americans risked their lives, endured savage beatings and imprisonment, for simply traveling together on buses and trains through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders’ belief in non-violent activism was sorely tested as they encountered mob violence and bitter racism along the way.
Free and open to the public