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.
Raymond Arsenault
as Self - Author of 'Freedom Riders'
Genevieve Houghton
as Self - Freedom Rider
Gordon Carey
as Self - Core staff
Derek Catsam
as Self - Historian
John Lewis
as Self - Freedom Rider
Diane Nash
as Self - Student, Fisk University
Charles Person
as Self - Freedom Rider
Sangernetta Gilbert Bush
as Self - Montgomery resident
John Seigenthaler
as Self - Nashville resident
Evan Thomas
as Self - Robert F. Kennedy biographer
John Patterson
as Self - Governor of Alabama 1959-1963
Clayborne Carson
as Self - Historian
