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Black college students take a leadership role in the Civil Rights Movement as lunch counter sit-ins spread across the South. Freedom Riders also try to desegregate interstate buses, but they are brutally attacked as they travel.
Original Release
02/04/1987
US Release
02/04/1987
Cast
Name | Character |
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Julian Bond | Narrator |
Angeline Butler | Self |
James Farmer | Self |
Jacqueline Kennedy | Self |
John F. Kennedy | Self |
Robert F. Kennedy | Self |
Coretta Scott King | Self |
Martin Luther King | Self |
James Lawson | Self |
Frederick Leonard | Self |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Julian Bond | Narrator |
Angeline Butler | Self |
James Farmer | Self |
Jacqueline Kennedy | Self |
John F. Kennedy | Self |
Robert F. Kennedy | Self |
Coretta Scott King | Self |
Martin Luther King | Self |
James Lawson | Self |
Frederick Leonard | Self |
John Lewis | Self |
Leo Lillard | Self |
Z. Alexander Looby | Self |
Floyd Mann | Self |
Burke Marshall | Self |
Diane Nash | Self |
Pat Nixon | Self |
Richard Nixon | Self |
John Patterson | Self |
James Peck | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Michael Ambrosino | Executive Producer |
Mark Samels | Executive Producer |
Orlando Bagwell | Producer |
Prudence Arndt | Producer |
Alison Bassett | Producer |
Jon Else | Producer |
Henry Hampton | Producer |
Judith Vecchione | Producer |