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Posted on October 20, 2021 By M C

Freedom Rides: Continuing Education Resources

Every Mike Wiley performance includes a post-show Q&A where audiences and artist connect on questions about the play and the history.  The following are a few of the materials mentioned in the Q&As from the past two weeks:

 

Further Reading:

Freedom Riders:  1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

by Raymond Arsenault

 

Walking with the Wind

by John Lewis

 

Lay Bare the Heart

by James Farmer

 

Ready for Revolution

by Stokely Carmichael

 

Time on Two Crosses:
The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

 


Films & Videos:

Freedom Riders

PBS documentary directed by Stanley Nelson

 

An Ordinary Hero

Documentary of Joan Mulholland, directed by Loki Mulholland

 

National Youth Summit 50th Anniversary 

In 2011 the Smithsonian Institution and the National Endowment for the Humanities commemorated the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Freedom Rides with a national conversation on history, democracy and civic activism.

In this program, Freedom Rides veterans Congressman John Lewis, D-GA, Diane Nash, Jim Zwerg, and Reverend James Lawson share how they became involved in the Freedom Rides and how their lives were affected. They joined filmmaker Stanley Nelson and scholar Raymond Arsenault to discuss the meaning of the Freedom Rides and the role of young people in shaping America’s past and future.

 


Visit:

Freedom Rides Museum

in Montgomery Alabama

 


 

 

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