
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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as Self - Racist Lawyer (archive footage)

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as Self - Treasurer of Mississippi 1964-1968

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as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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as Self - Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (archive footage)

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as Self - Registrar of Voters, Forrest County, Mississippi

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as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)

as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer

as Self - Former Governor of Mississippi (archive footage)

as Self - Miss Mississippi 1963

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as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)

as Self - Co-Founder, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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as Self - Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966-68

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as Self - Congresswoman, Democratic Party (archive footage)