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Freedom Summer (2014)

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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Freedom Summer

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Freedom Summer

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as Self - Mississippi Resident

as Self - Author of 'Freedom Summer'

Karin Kunstler Goldman

Karin Kunstler Goldman

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

as Self - Racist Lawyer (archive footage)

Dorothy Zellner

Dorothy Zellner

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Peggy Jean Connor

Peggy Jean Connor

as Self - Mississippi Resident

Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons

Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Rita Schwerner Bender

Rita Schwerner Bender

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Wally Butterworth

Wally Butterworth

as Self - Racist Radio Host (archive footage)

as Self - Treasurer of Mississippi 1964-1968

William J. Simmons

William J. Simmons

as Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council (archive footage)

William Scarborough

William Scarborough

as Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council

as Self - Historian

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Eleanor Holmes Norton

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Ivanhoe Donaldson

Ivanhoe Donaldson

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Charles McLaurin

Charles McLaurin

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer

as Self (archive footage)

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

as Self - Comedian (archive footage)

as Self - ABC News Correspondent (archive footage)

Allen C. Thompson

Allen C. Thompson

as Self - Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (archive footage)

Linda Wetmore Halpern

Linda Wetmore Halpern

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Susan Brownmiller

Susan Brownmiller

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

as Self - Registrar of Voters, Forrest County, Mississippi

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

as Self - Mississippi Resident

as Self - Mississippi Resident

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

as Self - Former Governor of Mississippi (archive footage)

Barbara Jan Nave

Barbara Jan Nave

as Self - Miss Mississippi 1963

as Self (archive footage)

as Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

as Self (archive footage)

J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

as Self (archive footage)

Victoria Gray-Adams

Victoria Gray-Adams

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)

as Self - Co-Founder, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

as Self (archive footage)

Sherwin Markman

Sherwin Markman

as Self - Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966-68

as Self - Historian

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

as Self (archive footage)

as Self - Congresswoman, Democratic Party (archive footage)

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Aljernon Tunsil

Aljernon Tunsil

Original Music Composer

Director of Photography

Cyndee Readdean

Cyndee Readdean

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