Freedom Summer - Short Clip 1

Season 26 Episode 6

Shattering the foundations of white supremacy. Freedom Summer premieres on June 24, 2014.

This clip picks up from the first month that the campaign started in earnest. Volunteers arrived in Mississippi with the disappearance three volunteers - two white, one black - casting a dark shadow over their mission.

AIR DATE 6/24/14

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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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