Freedom Summer

2014
PG
1h 53m

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A look back at the summer of 1964, when more than 700 student activists took segregated Mississippi by storm, registering voters, creating freedom schools and establishing the Mississippi Fr... Read allA look back at the summer of 1964, when more than 700 student activists took segregated Mississippi by storm, registering voters, creating freedom schools and establishing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.A look back at the summer of 1964, when more than 700 student activists took segregated Mississippi by storm, registering voters, creating freedom schools and establishing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

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7.9/10

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- 2 nominations total

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Karin Kunstler Goldman

Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Julian Bond

Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Peggy Jean Connor

Self - Mississippi Resident

Dudley Connor

Self - Racist Lawyer
(archive footage)

Dorothy Zellner

Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons

Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Patti Miller

Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Tracy Sugarman

Self

Larry Rubin

Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Rita Schwerner Bender

Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Hollis Watkins

Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Anthony Harris

Self - Mississippi Resident

Wally Butterworth

Self - Racist Radio Host
(archive footage)

Bruce Watson

Self - Author of 'Freedom Summer'

William Winter

Self - Treasurer of Mississippi 1964-1968

William J. Simmons

Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council
(archive footage)

William Scarborough

Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council

John Dittmer

Self - Historian

Director
- Stanley Nelson
Writer
- Stanley Nelson
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10/10

Moving and Powerful

As a white Virginia high school student in 1964 I recall being inspired to hear that young people from all over the country were going to Mississippi to help register Black people to vote, and even more I recall being shocked and outraged to hear that they were being beaten, arrested and even killed. This movie, though interviews, documentary footage, photographs and drawings, brings all of this alive in a moving and powerful way. You meet the young people themselves, black and white, and find out why they did what they did, how it effected them and how it helped to change history. This is not a stuffy history lesson, but a true story bursting with life about people fighting for a better world.