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Chapter 1 | Freedom Riders
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Watch a preview of Freedom Riders.
Freedom Schools
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Watch "Freedom Summer" on American Experience PBS June 24 at 9/8c.
Charles McLaurin - "The Foot Soldier"
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"We were asked to leave. We did not, and we were arrested and locked up for the night."
Barney Frank - "The Politician"
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"I felt morally empowered, but it was very scary." Freedom Summer premieres June 24, 2014.
Day 2: Bakhrom Ismoilov
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Bakhrom Ismoilov asks fellow students about their first two days on the 2011 Freedom Ride.
Day 2: Mother's Day Recollections
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Student Rajlakshmi De talks to Freedom Rider Helen Singleton about her own mother.
Day 3: Because We Knew it was Right
2:56
Student rider Maricela Aguilar talks about the power of the youth movement.
Day 3: John Walker
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John Walker gets reactions to the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.
Day 4: Samantha Williams
2:48
Samantha Williams' interview with undocumented Student Freedom Rider Maricela Aguilar.
Day 6: May Mgbolu and Ryan Price
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Two Student Freedom Riders perform a slam poem they wrote, "Equality."
Day 5: Jason McGaughey
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Jason McGaughey asks his fellow Student Freedom Riders their definitions of reconciliation
Day 7: Tariq Meyers
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Student Freedom Rider Tariq Meyers described the power of love to enable healing.
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