"Freedom Riders" Film Screening & Discussion

The “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle” film series is back with a screening of "Freedom Riders," presented by The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses throughout the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The movie tells the terrifying and suspenseful story of a time when white and black volunteers riding a bus into the Deep South, risked being jailed, beaten or killed. Free and open to the public. For more information call (313) 965-0606 or email general@rosaparks.org.