Freedom Summer, Chapter 1

Season 26 Episode 6

"Freedom Summer" premieres June 24, 2014 at 9/8c.

Over 10 memorable weeks in 1964 known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers from around the country joined organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in Mississippi, then one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states.

AIR DATE 6/24/14

Freedom Summer's Widow

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Freedom Summer, Chapter 1

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Pete Seeger and Freedom Summer

What Was Freedom Summer?

Opposition to Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer's Widow

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Freedom Summer, Chapter 1

Freedom Summer - Short Clip 1

Pete Seeger and Freedom Summer

What Was Freedom Summer?

Opposition to Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer's Widow

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Freedom Summer, Chapter 1

Freedom Summer - Short Clip 1

About Freedom Summer: American Experience

Revisit the hot and deadly summer of 1964, when student volunteers and local Black citizens faced racial violence in Mississippi while registering voters in an attempt to break the hold of segregation.

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