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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.

Release Date

January 17, 2014

Runtime

113 min

Genres

Documentary

Directed by

Stanley Nelson

Written by

Stanley Nelson

Language

English

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

Status

Released
Cast54 cast members

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)
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