Freedom Summer

7.2
20141h 53m

In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created freedom schools, and established the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Fifty years later, eyewitness accounts and never-before-seen archival material tell their story. Not all of them would make it through.

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Photo of Julian Bond

Julian Bond

Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Photo of Eleanor Holmes Norton

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Photo of Dick Gregory

Dick Gregory

Self - Comedian (archive footage)

Photo of Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Photo of J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover

Self (voice) (archive footage)

Photo of Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch

Self - Historian

Photo of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

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