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 and Crew
Anthony Harris
Self - Mississippi Resident
Bruce Watson
Self - Author of 'Freedom Summer'
Karin Kunstler Goldman
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer
Julian Bond
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Dudley Connor
Self - Racist Lawyer (archive footage)
Dorothy Zellner
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Peggy Jean Connor
Self - Mississippi Resident
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer
Patti Miller
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer
Tracy Sugarman
Self
Larry Rubin
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Rita Schwerner Bender
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Hollis Watkins
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Wally Butterworth
Self - Racist Radio Host (archive footage)
William Winter
Self - Treasurer of Mississippi 1964-1968
William J. Simmons
Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council (archive footage)
William Scarborough
Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council
John Dittmer
Self - Historian
Charlie Cobb
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Ivanhoe Donaldson
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Bob Moses
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Charles McLaurin
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
James Forman
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Edwin King
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Self (archive footage)
Amzie Moore
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Dick Gregory
Self - Comedian (archive footage)
Bob Clark
Self - ABC News Correspondent (archive footage)
Allen C. Thompson
Self - Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (archive footage)
Linda Wetmore Halpern
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer
Susan Brownmiller
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer
Chris Williams
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer
Theron C. Lynd
Self - Registrar of Voters, Forrest County, Mississippi
Dave Dennis
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Daisy Harris
Self - Mississippi Resident
Roscoe Jones
Self - Mississippi Resident
Walt Kaufman
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)
Chris Hexter
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer
Ross Barnett
Self - Former Governor of Mississippi (archive footage)
Barbara Jan Nave
Self - Miss Mississippi 1963
Malva Heffner
Self (archive footage)
Albert Heffner
Self (archive footage)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Pete Seeger
Self
Ben Chaney
Self (archive footage)
Victoria Gray-Adams
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)
Aaron Henry
Self - Co-Founder, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Joe Rauh
Self (archive footage)
Sherwin Markman
Self - Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966-68
Taylor Branch
Self - Historian
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Edith Green
Self - Congresswoman, Democratic Party (archive footage)
