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.

Documentary

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))