Overview - Freedom Summer

Overview

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.

Cast

• Name: Anthony Harris

  Character: Self - Mississippi Resident

  Popularity: 0.0605

  

• Name: Bruce Watson

  Character: Self - Author of 'Freedom Summer'

  Popularity: 0.0553

  

• Name: Karin Kunstler Goldman

  Character: Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

  Popularity: 0.0214

  

• Name: Julian Bond

  Character: Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  Popularity: 0.2111

  

• Name: Dudley Connor

  Character: Self - Racist Lawyer (archive footage)

  Popularity: 0.0214

  

• Name: Dorothy Zellner

  Character: Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  Popularity: 0.0826

  

• Name: Peggy Jean Connor

  Character: Self - Mississippi Resident

  Popularity: 0.0379

  

• Name: Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons

  Character: Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

  Popularity: 0.0143