Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer

113 mins | Documentary | Jan. 17, 2014

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.

Freedom Summer

113 mins | Documentary | Jan. 17, 2014

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.
IMDb rating 7.9
Producers WGBH Boston, Firelight Films
Original title Freedom Summer
Directors Stanley Nelson
Writers Stanley Nelson

Cast

Anthony Harris

as Self - Mississippi Resident

Bruce Watson

as Self - Author of 'Freedom Summer'

Karin Kunstler Goldman

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Julian Bond

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Dudley Connor

as Self - Racist Lawyer (archive footage)

Dorothy Zellner

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Peggy Jean Connor

as Self - Mississippi Resident

Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Patti Miller

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Tracy Sugarman

as Self

Larry Rubin

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Rita Schwerner Bender

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Hollis Watkins

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Wally Butterworth

as Self - Racist Radio Host (archive footage)

William Winter

as Self - Treasurer of Mississippi 1964-1968

William J. Simmons

as Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council (archive footage)

William Scarborough

as Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council

John Dittmer

as Self - Historian

Charlie Cobb

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Eleanor Holmes Norton

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Ivanhoe Donaldson

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Bob Moses

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Charles McLaurin

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

James Forman

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Edwin King

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Fannie Lou Hamer

as Self (archive footage)

Amzie Moore

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Dick Gregory

as Self - Comedian (archive footage)

Bob Clark

as Self - ABC News Correspondent (archive footage)

Allen C. Thompson

as Self - Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (archive footage)

Linda Wetmore Halpern

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Susan Brownmiller

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Chris Williams

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Theron C. Lynd

as Self - Registrar of Voters, Forrest County, Mississippi

Dave Dennis

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Daisy Harris

as Self - Mississippi Resident

Roscoe Jones

as Self - Mississippi Resident

Walt Kaufman

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)

Chris Hexter

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

Ross Barnett

as Self - Former Governor of Mississippi (archive footage)

Barbara Jan Nave

as Self - Miss Mississippi 1963

Malva Heffner

as Self (archive footage)

Albert Heffner

as Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

as Self (archive footage)

J. Edgar Hoover

as Self (voice) (archive footage)

Pete Seeger

as Self

Ben Chaney

as Self (archive footage)

Victoria Gray-Adams

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)

Aaron Henry

as Self - Co-Founder, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Joe Rauh

as Self (archive footage)

Sherwin Markman

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

Taylor Branch

as Self - Historian

Martin Luther King Jr.

as Self (archive footage)

Edith Green

as Self - Congresswoman, Democratic Party (archive footage)