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
- 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