Freedom Summer
2014In 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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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)