

17/01/2014
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.

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)
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