Freedom Rider's Traveling Exhibit
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE has partnered with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History to create a traveling exhibit -- a moveable museum of sorts -- that tells the story of the 1961 Freedom Rides. A detailed narrative of the Rides is illustrated with vivid archival photos and newspaper clippings that document this pivotal event in the Civil Rights Movement. The exhibit is enhanced by companion audio that allows visitors to hear the poignant eyewitness accounts of the Riders who endured bitter racism and savage beatings, but ultimately changed America forever.
July 18 - August 15, 2011
San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, California
415-557-4400
http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1007302201
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/rides