American Experience: Freedom Riders

The Teachers' Domain: Freedom Riders Special Collection is a collaboration of WGBH Educational Productions, WGBH Interactive, and WGBH Media Library. Exclusive corporate funding for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual. Major funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Freedom Riders has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Because Democracy Demands Wisdom. Additional funding provided by Lynn Bay Dayton, Nordblum Family Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Public Television Viewers. American Experience is produced for PBS by WGBH Boston.

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Production Credits

Project Management

Denise Blumenthal

Joe Brandt

Karen Cariani

Christine Dietlin

Howard Lurie

Peter Pinch

Ted Sicker

Resource Production Team

Bob Blumenthal

Anna Brooks

Julie Ecker

Susana Fernandes

Irena Fayngold

Lisa Rosenthal

Barbara Seidl

Mitch Smith

Catherine Zaker

Business Management

Maria Constantinides

Polly Searles

Advisors

Dr. Steven Cohen, Tufts University

Dr. Vivian Johnson, Boston University

Copy Editor

Cynthia Bond

Video Closed Captioning

Media Access Group

Resource Credits

Bob Adelman/Magnum Photos

Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama

Associated Press

Bill Steber Photography

Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

Birmingham News

Birmingham Public Library

Bettmann/CORBIS

Center for Documentary Media

Corbis Motion

Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos

Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos

Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos

Getty Images

Historic Films Archive

ITN Source

James Farmer's "Freedom Ride" May 4, 1961/di-01584/Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas

Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.

Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos

MacDonald & Associates

Constantine Manos/Magnum Photos

Janie McKinney

Jack Moebes/CORBIS

Nashville Public Library, Special Collections

NBC Universal Archives

Odyssey Productions

Streamline Films, Inc.

The Tennessean

Thought Equity Motion/CBS

Tommy Giles Photographic Services

UCLA Film & Television Archive

WSB Newsfilm Collection, University of Georgia Libraries

WPA Film Library

WVTM-TV, Birmingham Broadcasting

James Zwerg


Special thanks to AFTRA and AF of M for granting permission to use segments produced with participation of their members.