50th Anniversary

Freedom Riders and Stanley Nelson on OPRAH May 4

Oprah Winfrey and Stanley Nelson Celebrate the 1961 Freedom Rides
Tune-In: May 4th on The Oprah Show!

Chicago, IL – Emmy award-winning filmmaker, Stanley Nelson, and nearly two hundred Freedom Riders will appear on a special episode of The Oprah Show. One week before the national PBS broadcast of the documentary Freedom Riders, which chronicles their heroic victory, Oprah Winfrey will sit down with leaders of the Freedom Riders’ movement and Stanley Nelson who is bringing their little known story into living rooms across America.

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