Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer

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Freedom Summer

Kanopy
Kanopy (Free)
7.2(6 votes)
2014
1h 53m
Documentary

Overview

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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Cast

Anthony Harris

Self - Mississippi Resident

Bruce Watson

Self - Author of 'Freedom Summer'

Karin Kunstler Goldman

Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Julian Bond

Julian Bond

Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Dudley Connor

Self - Racist Lawyer (archive footage)

Dorothy Zellner

Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Peggy Jean Connor

Self - Mississippi Resident

Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons

Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Patti Miller

Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Tracy Sugarman

Self

Directed by

Stanley Nelson

Stanley Nelson

Written by

Stanley Nelson

Stanley Nelson

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