"Freedom Riders" up now on PBS

[Faygo Kid]

Extraordinary story, vitally important part of American history. I was so moved a few years ago when I saw the actual Woolworth lunch counter on display at the Smithsonian. Old enough to remember the images on TV. Heads up.

[niyad]

1. doesn't come up until 8 here

[Gabi Hayes]

2. Lorraine Motel ....go there if you're ever in Memphis.

when I was there it was being demonstrated against by people who said the money was better spent....elsewhere, on poor people, and that MLK wouldn't have approved

that said, it was a seminal experiene, more affecting than the times I've been to the Viet Nam War Memorial Wall

thanks for the headsup, btw. I saw the blurb for it last night, then forgot

another blast from our nation's benighted past, though this turned out for the better (unless, of course, you're a lover of the Southern Strategy, which sprang from the Civil Rights movement)

[Gabi Hayes]

3. read this book, if you can find it....amazon says they have it.

von Hoffman writes from the front, during the height of the fear and violence that permeated the entire civil rights era

I remember reading his reports in the Chicago Daily News

these are the events that opened my eyes to what America is really like

[Stinky The Clown]

4. An extraordinary two hours

Now watch "Soundtrack of a Revolution" on Netflix rent or streaming.

[CBHagman]

5. Bumping and recommending.

My local station has run a couple of programs on the Freedom Riders, one interspersing new performances of appropriate music with the reminisces of actual Freedom Riders, and one a straight documentary. I recommend both.

[JPZenger]

6. Great Program - if you missed it, watch for the re-broadcast

I thought I knew the story beforehand, but there was so much more to it.

[monmouth]

7. The people in this documentary are most likely parents of today's

teabaggers. What a horrible time for this country, and how brave and determined the riders were.

[CBHagman]

8. Which people do you mean?

"The people in this documentary" include the brave riders, but I assume you were referring to the attackers caught in the press photographs, the KKK members referred to, etc.

As for the adherents of the tea party, some of them are old enough to have been around then, in in the early '60s. I haven't been able to find a definitive poll on the makeup of the tea party crowd, but a casual look at the protests suggests the presence of quite a few over 50, 60, 70, and perhaps 80 as well.

[txwhitedove]

9. I witnessed a Woolworth's demonstration in the 1950's.

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. Great program! I was surprised how it cast JFK and Bobby in such

unflattering light. And Dr King is also shown as a foot dragging worrywart advising the students to 'take it slow, don't do this now, it will set us back'