The Power of Students: Freedom Riders

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, where hundres of black and white Americans travled together on buses and trains to testing the end of Jim Crow laws, GSU's College of Education’s Alonzo A. Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence is holding a special event.

Attendees will be able to see an advanced screening of the Public Broadcasting Service’s film entitled, “Freedom Riders,” which highlights the history of the Freedom Rides through the eyes of those who participated and the government officials and journalists who witnessed it firsthand.  Following the film, Atlanta Journal-Constitution assignments editor Angela Tuck will moderate a discussion about the rides and the film with two Freedom Riders: Bernard Lafayette and William Harbour.

For more information, contact Danyelle Thomas.