Freedom Ride, an upcoming period drama based on first-person accounts by several original Freedom Riders, including U.S. Congressman John Lewis.The film is set in 1961 and follows a multiracial group of young activists — led by Lewis — and their actions just years before the future congressman suffered a skull fracture after being attacked by an Alabama state trooper as he and other civil rights protesters crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge.
The movie will follow the moment Lewis and others decided to take a stand in the fight against racial discrimination, traveling by bus into the segregated South where they were brutally beaten, arrested, and firebombed, yet remained nonviolent.
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