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Remembering The Freedom Riders

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Program Description:

The year 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the civil campaign the Freedom Rides. In the summer of 1961, a group of courageous young activists endured bloody mob violence, suffered police arrests, and stood down death threats in a fight for human dignity. For the first time ever their story is told in the compelling American Experience documentary "Freedom Riders." In this edition of Black Issues Forum, join host Deborah Holt Noel at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh for a taped panel discussion about civil rights demonstrations and fairness in public transportation.

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Panel

• Gordon Carey - one of the architects of the Freedom Rides campaign, a former National Director for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Carey assisted in planning demonstrations in Greensboro and Durham.
• Dr. Mia Bay http://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/56-professors/97-bay-mia - Director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity http://raceethnicity.rutgers.edu/ at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis http://rcha.rutgers.edu/ in New Jersey. She is currently a fellow at the National Humanities Center nationalhumanitiescenter.org in Research Triangle Park and is writing a book about the social history of segregated transportation.
  
• Dr. Jarvis Hall Director of the Institute for Civic Engagement and Social Change http://www.nccu.edu/directory/details.cfm?id=jhall at North Carolina Central University and Associate Professor of Political Science at NCCU.
  
• Donna-Marie Winn, Ph.D. http://www.fpg.unc.edu/people/fpg_people.cfm?staffid=1851 - Investigator with the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute