Freedom on my Mind
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Originally produced in 1994 by Clarity Educational Productions.
Narrator: Rhonnie Washington.
Revisits the Mississippi freedom movement in the early 1960s when a handful of idealistic young activists believed they could change history -- and did. In 1964, organizers of the voter registration drive, fearing for their lives and hoping to attract the nation and federal government to their plight, recruited 1,000 mostly white college students from around the country to join them for Freedom Summer. Three students were murdered but the drive succeeded in signing up 80,000 members, mostly poverty-stricken sharecroppers, maids and day-laborers who confronted jail, beatings and even murder for the right to vote.
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PUBLISHED
San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel [distributor], 2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Field, Connie.
Mulford, Marilyn.
Chandler, Michael.
Washington, Rhonnie Lynn.
Clarity Educational Productions.
California Newsreel (Firm)
SUBJECTS
Mississippi Freedom Project.
African Americans -- Suffrage -- Mississippi.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi.
Voter registration -- Mississippi.
Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.