Black History Month - Film 'Freedom Riders' Event
- Time:
- 18:00 - 20:30
- Date:
- 21 October 2012
- Venue:
- Lecture Theatre A, Nuffield Building 6
For more information regarding this event, please email Martin Ruddock at m.w.ruddock@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Freedom Riders (2010) 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 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.
Freedom Riders is a American historical documentary film, produced by Firelight Media for PBS American Experience based in part on the book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by historian Raymond Arsenault. Directed by Stanley Nelson, it marked the 50th anniversary of the first Freedom Ride in May 1961 and was first aired on May 16, 2011
Speaker information
Martin Ruddock,Film will be followed by an open discussion about the issues raised.