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Freedom Riders

Season 23 Episode 11

The story behind a courageous band of civil rights activists called Freedom Riders who in 1961 challenged segregation in the American South.

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Follow LBJ from rural Texas to his ascendancy to the presidency after the assassination of JFK.
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The Presidents: Nixon
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