Freedom summer : Mississippi 1964 / PBS.

In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over ten memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of th...

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Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Series:American experience (Television program)
Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
African Americans > Suffrage > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Ethnicity.
Political activists.
Racism.
Documentary films.
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre:
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Freedom summer.
Format: Video DVD
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In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over ten memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states, even in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and death.
Note:Originally released as a motion picture in 2010.
Videorecording.
Call Number:E185.93.M6 F7443 2014 VideoDVD
AD3 D0162050 VideoDVD
Audience:
Not rated by MPAA. TVPG.
ISBN:9781627890229
162789022X
System Details:DVD, region 1; widescreen presentation; 5.1 surround sound.