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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Seven Freedom Riders who had been arrested the previous day were transported from the Birmingham jail north to the Tennessee border. Early in the morning of May 18, Bull Connor and other police officers drive the Riders under cover of darkness to Ardmore, Alabama. The Riders are left on the side of a road and told to make their way back to Nashville. Instead, the Riders find refuge in the home of an elderly black couple. From Nashville, Diane Nash makes arrangements for a car to transport the Riders back to Birmingham the following day. |
