Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer (2014)

Documentary

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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  • Release Date: 2014-01-17
  • Runtime: 1h 53min
  • Director: Stanley Nelson

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Cast

  • Anthony Harris

    Self - Mississippi Resident

  • Bruce Watson

    Self - Author of 'Freedom Summer'

  • Karin Kunstler Goldman

    Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

  • Julian Bond

    Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Dudley Connor

    Self - Racist Lawyer (archive footage)

  • Dorothy Zellner

    Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Peggy Jean Connor

    Self - Mississippi Resident

  • Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons

    Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

  • Patti Miller

    Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

  • Tracy Sugarman

    Self

  • Larry Rubin

    Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Rita Schwerner Bender

    Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Hollis Watkins

    Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Wally Butterworth

    Self - Racist Radio Host (archive footage)

  • William Winter

    Self - Treasurer of Mississippi 1964-1968

  • William J. Simmons

    Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council (archive footage)

  • William Scarborough

    Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council

  • John Dittmer

    Self - Historian

  • Charlie Cobb

    Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Eleanor Holmes Norton

    Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Ivanhoe Donaldson

    Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Bob Moses

    Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Charles McLaurin

    Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • James Forman

    Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Edwin King

    Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Fannie Lou Hamer

    Self (archive footage)

  • Amzie Moore

    Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Dick Gregory

    Self - Comedian (archive footage)

  • Bob Clark

    Self - ABC News Correspondent (archive footage)

  • Allen C. Thompson

    Self - Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (archive footage)

  • Linda Wetmore Halpern

    Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

  • Susan Brownmiller

    Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

  • Chris Williams

    Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

  • Theron C. Lynd

    Self - Registrar of Voters, Forrest County, Mississippi

  • Dave Dennis

    Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Daisy Harris

    Self - Mississippi Resident

  • Roscoe Jones

    Self - Mississippi Resident

  • Walt Kaufman

    Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)

  • Chris Hexter

    Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

  • Ross Barnett

    Self - Former Governor of Mississippi (archive footage)

  • Barbara Jan Nave

    Self - Miss Mississippi 1963

  • Malva Heffner

    Self (archive footage)

  • Albert Heffner

    Self (archive footage)

  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    Self (archive footage)

  • J. Edgar Hoover

    Self (voice) (archive footage)

  • Pete Seeger

    Self

  • Ben Chaney

    Self (archive footage)

  • Victoria Gray-Adams

    Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)

  • Aaron Henry

    Self - Co-Founder, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

  • Joe Rauh

    Self (archive footage)

  • Sherwin Markman

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

  • Taylor Branch

    Self - Historian

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Self (archive footage)

  • Edith Green

    Self - Congresswoman, Democratic Party (archive footage)