'Son of the South' film focuses on Montgomery freedom rider Jim Zwerg
“I asked God to be with me, and to give me the strength to remain nonviolent, and to forgive them,” Zwerg said. Zwerg’s story is a part of the new Spike Lee produced movie “Son of the South,” which releases Friday. It’s based on Bob Zellner’s autobiography “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek.” On May 20, 1961, the Freedom Riders arrived in Montgomery attempting to test the law and integrate bus travel across the South. “In that instant, I had the most amazing religious exper...
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