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Freedom Summer( 2014)

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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Anthony Harris

      Self - Mississippi Resident

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      Bruce Watson

      Self - Author of 'Freedom Summer'

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      Karin Kunstler Goldman

      Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

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      Julian Bond

      Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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      Dudley Connor

      Self - Racist Lawyer (archive footage)

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      Dorothy Zellner

      Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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      Peggy Jean Connor

      Self - Mississippi Resident

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      Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons

      Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

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      Patti Miller

      Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

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      Tracy Sugarman

      Self

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      Larry Rubin

      Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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      Rita Schwerner Bender

      Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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      Hollis Watkins

      Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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      Wally Butterworth

      Self - Racist Radio Host (archive footage)

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      William Winter

      Self - Treasurer of Mississippi 1964-1968

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      William J. Simmons

      Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council (archive footage)

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      William Scarborough

      Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council

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      John Dittmer

      Self - Historian

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      Charlie Cobb

      Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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      Eleanor Holmes Norton

      Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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      Ivanhoe Donaldson

      Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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      Bob Moses

      Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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      Charles McLaurin

      Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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      James Forman

      Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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      Edwin King

      Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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      Fannie Lou Hamer

      Self (archive footage)

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      Amzie Moore

      Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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      Dick Gregory

      Self - Comedian (archive footage)

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      Bob Clark

      Self - ABC News Correspondent (archive footage)

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      Allen C. Thompson

      Self - Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (archive footage)

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      Linda Wetmore Halpern

      Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

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      Susan Brownmiller

      Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

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      Chris Williams

      Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

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      Theron C. Lynd

      Self - Registrar of Voters, Forrest County, Mississippi

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      Dave Dennis

      Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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      Daisy Harris

      Self - Mississippi Resident

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      Roscoe Jones

      Self - Mississippi Resident

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      Walt Kaufman

      Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)

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      Chris Hexter

      Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

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      Ross Barnett

      Self - Former Governor of Mississippi (archive footage)

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      Barbara Jan Nave

      Self - Miss Mississippi 1963

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      Malva Heffner

      Self (archive footage)

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      Albert Heffner

      Self (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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      Ben Chaney

      Self (archive footage)

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      Victoria Gray-Adams

      Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)

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      Aaron Henry

      Self - Co-Founder, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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      Joe Rauh

      Self (archive footage)

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      Sherwin Markman

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

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      Taylor Branch

      Self - Historian

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      Martin Luther King Jr.

      Self (archive footage)

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      Edith Green

      Self - Congresswoman, Democratic Party (archive footage)

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    Original Language

    English

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