Freedom Riders: Screening and Discussion
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Riders, WGBH Boston’s American Experience has produced the documentary Freedom Riders-based on an award-winning book by Raymond Arsenault, PhD, the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at USF St. Petersburg. The director of the film is Stanley Nelson, a 2002 MacArthur Fellow known for groundbreaking historical documentaries. Nelson won a Primetime Emmy in Best Direction, nonfiction, for his film, The Murder of Emmett Till, which was broadcast nationally on PBS and reopened the investigation of Till’s murder.
Join award-winning director Stanley Nelson and Freedom Riders Genevieve Hughes Houghton, Thomas Armstrong and Dan Stevens for a discussion following the screening, moderated by Adam Green, PhD, Professor of History, University of Chicago. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.prairie.org/freedomriders.
Co-sponsors for Freedom Riders series: WBEZ-Chicago, the DuSable Museum of African-American History, Neighborhood Writing Alliance, Free Street Theatre, Congo Square Theatre, Young Chicago Authors, Chicago Freedom School, Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, Woodson Regional Library, The Foundation for Homan Square, The African-American Museum of Southern Illinois, WSIU, The Varsity Theatre, Freedom Trails Legacies of Hope.
