Journey to Freedom - Retrace the Freedom Rides
Retrace two of the most influential Freedom Rides of 1961: the original CORE Freedom Ride and the Nashville Student Movement Ride.
Courtesy of "Freedom Riders," a WGBH production for PBS
The Oprah Winfrey Show | May 04, 2011 
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Jackson, Mississippi, is the endpoint for the vast majority of Freedom Rides during the summer of 1961. Jackson police routinely arrest groups of Freedom Riders at the local bus terminals, airport and train stations, not under local or state segregation laws, but on the formal charges of incitement to riot, breach of peace and failure to obey a police officer. Hundreds of Riders are imprisoned at the infamous Parchman State Prison Farm in Parchman, Mississippi. More on the Freedom Rides Oprah honors the Freedom Riders Backstage interviews with the Riders 
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