Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer 2014

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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.

  • Released: 2014-01-17
  • Runtime: 113 minutes
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Stars: Eleanor Holmes Norton, Susan Brownmiller, Martin Luther King Jr., Dick Gregory, J. Edgar Hoover, James Forman, Pete Seeger, Patti Miller, Barbara Jan Nave, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Ivanhoe Donaldson, Peggy Jean Connor, William Scarborough, Allen C. Thompson, Malva Heffner, Rita Schwerner Bender, Edwin King, Roscoe Jones, Sherwin Markman, Tracy Sugarman  Show all >
    John Dittmer, Linda Wetmore Halpern, Albert Heffner, Wally Butterworth, Charles McLaurin, Daisy Harris, Joe Rauh, Larry Rubin, Bob Moses, Theron C. Lynd, Dudley Connor, Chris Hexter, Edith Green, Karin Kunstler Goldman, Hollis Watkins, Fannie Lou Hamer, Walt Kaufman, Dorothy Zellner, Amzie Moore, Ross Barnett, Dave Dennis, Victoria Gray-Adams, Lyndon B. Johnson, Julian Bond, Taylor Branch, Ben Chaney, Aaron Henry, Anthony Harris, William Winter, Charlie Cobb, Bob Clark, William J. Simmons, Chris Williams
  • Director: Stanley Nelson