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.

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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)