• Special: Oprah Honors American Heroes: The Freedom Riders Reunite 50 Years Later

  • Mar 11 2025
  • Duración: 27 m
  • Podcast

Special: Oprah Honors American Heroes: The Freedom Riders Reunite 50 Years Later

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  • From May 4, 2011: Oprah celebrates the 50-year anniversary of the 1961 Freedom Riders movement with 178 surviving Freedom Riders in the audience. The American heroes share their reasons for risking their lives to defy the segregation laws of the Deep South. Congressman John Lewis is reunited with Elwin Wilson, one of the men who beat him at a bus station in Rock Hill, South Carolina. They open up about the beating and Wilson’s subsequent apology in 2009. In 2013, Elwin Wilson died in a South Carolina hospital at the age of 76.

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