Freedom Summer (2014)

Summary

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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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)

Editing	Aljernon Tunsil	Editor
Directing	Stanley Nelson	Director
Writing	Stanley Nelson	Writer
Production	Cyndee Readdean	Producer
Sound	Tom Phillips	Original Music Composer
Camera	Richard Beymer	Director of Photography