Episode Number
39
Program Date
![Raymond Arsenault, "Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice"](/sites/myfloridahistory.org/files/2025-06/fftv39_raymond-arsenault_author-freedom-riders-1961-and-the-struggle-for-racial-justice.jpg "Raymond Arsenault, "Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice"")
The Freedom Rides of 1961 are seen as a pivotal point in the Civil Rights Movement, but it's often forgotten that two groups of Freedom Riders came to Florida.
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