In Honor of MLK, JR. Day - Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Freedom Riders January 14, 2009

With a Gospel performance featuring Neshama Carlebach and the Green Pastures Baptist Choir; author Eric Etheridge and Freedom Riders Joan Pleune and Hezekiah Watkins

In the spring and summer of 1961, several hundred Americans – blacks and whites, men and women – converged on Jackson, Mississippi to challenge state segregation laws. Over 300 people were arrested and convicted of the charge "breach of the peace." It is estimated that half of the white Freedom Riders were Jewish. Interviews with Freedom Riders and musical performances pay tribute to the Civil Rights Movement.

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