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The Bus Murals Of Anniston: Teaching The Freedom Riders History, Joanne E. Gates
The Bus Murals Of Anniston: Teaching The Freedom Riders History, Joanne E. Gates
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PBS's American Experience makes available in streaming format its documentary of the Freedom Riders from the PBS website. With that and with a more detailed photographic slide show of the information panels on Anniston's Burning Bus murals, I seek to bring my students to an awareness of ways that history, especially the history of the violence that met the Freedom Riders outside Anniston, is worthy of a revisiting in today's times. I want to bring into my classroom an appreciation for the bus murals that depict the full history of the incident so that students attending Jacksonville State University can …