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Freedom Summer

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.

2014 |1h 53m |  Documentary

Videos

Cast

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Julian Bond

Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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Eleanor Holmes Norton

Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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Dick Gregory

Self - Comedian (archive footage)

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

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J. Edgar Hoover

Self (voice) (archive footage)

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Pete Seeger

Self

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Taylor Branch

Self - Historian

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

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Released

Language

English

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