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Freedom Summer

Directed by Stanley Nelson
2014    1h 53m    Not Rated
Documentary, History
7.893%
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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 Freedom Democratic Party.
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Cast of Freedom Summer
  • Anthony HarrisSelf - Mississippi Resident
  • Bruce WatsonSelf - Author of 'Freedom Summer'
  • Karin Kunstler GoldmanSelf - Freedom Summer Volunteer
  • Julian BondSelf - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • Dudley ConnorSelf - Racist Lawyer (archive footage)
  • Dorothy ZellnerSelf - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • Peggy Jean ConnorSelf - Mississippi Resident
  • Gwendolyn Zoharah SimmonsSelf - Freedom Summer Volunteer
  • Patti MillerSelf - Freedom Summer Volunteer
  • Tracy SugarmanSelf
  • Larry RubinSelf - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • Rita Schwerner BenderSelf - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • Hollis WatkinsSelf - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • Wally ButterworthSelf - Racist Radio Host (archive footage)
  • William WinterSelf - Treasurer of Mississippi 1964-1968
  • William J. SimmonsSelf - Mississippi Citizens' Council (archive footage)
  • William ScarboroughSelf - Mississippi Citizens' Council
  • John DittmerSelf - Historian
  • Charlie CobbSelf - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • Eleanor Holmes NortonSelf - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • Ivanhoe DonaldsonSelf - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • Bob MosesSelf - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • Charles McLaurinSelf - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • James FormanSelf - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • Edwin KingSelf - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • Fannie Lou HamerSelf (archive footage)
  • Amzie MooreSelf - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • Dick GregorySelf - Comedian (archive footage)
  • Bob ClarkSelf - ABC News Correspondent (archive footage)
  • Allen C. ThompsonSelf - Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (archive footage)
  • Linda Wetmore HalpernSelf - Freedom Summer Volunteer
  • Susan BrownmillerSelf - Freedom Summer Volunteer
  • Chris WilliamsSelf - Freedom Summer Volunteer
  • Theron C. LyndSelf - Registrar of Voters, Forrest County, Mississippi
  • Dave DennisSelf - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
  • Daisy HarrisSelf - Mississippi Resident
  • Roscoe JonesSelf - Mississippi Resident
  • Walt KaufmanSelf - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)
  • Chris HexterSelf - Freedom Summer Volunteer
  • Ross BarnettSelf - Former Governor of Mississippi (archive footage)
  • Barbara Jan NaveSelf - Miss Mississippi 1963
  • Malva HeffnerSelf (archive footage)
  • Albert HeffnerSelf (archive footage)
  • Lyndon B. JohnsonSelf (archive footage)
  • J. Edgar HooverSelf (voice) (archive footage)
  • Pete SeegerSelf
  • Ben ChaneySelf (archive footage)
  • Victoria Gray-AdamsSelf - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)
  • Aaron HenrySelf - Co-Founder, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
  • Joe RauhSelf (archive footage)
  • Sherwin MarkmanSelf - Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966-68
  • Taylor BranchSelf - Historian
  • Martin Luther King Jr.Self (archive footage)
  • Edith GreenSelf - Congresswoman, Democratic Party (archive footage)
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