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 - Mississippi Resident
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as Self - Racist Radio Host (archive footage)
as Self - Treasurer of Mississippi 1964-1968
as Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council (archive footage)
as Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council
as Self - Historian
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as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
as Self - Comedian (archive footage)
as Self - ABC News Correspondent (archive footage)
as Self - Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (archive footage)
as Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer
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as Self - Registrar of Voters, Forrest County, Mississippi
as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
as Self - Mississippi Resident
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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)
