Opposition to Freedom Summer

Season 26 Episode 6

Watch a clip from "Freedom Summer," premiering June 24, 2014.

"People in the movement were willing to die, but we didn't want to die in obscurity. So if we brought in students, their colleges, their parents would focus on Mississippi." "Freedom Summer" premieres on American Experience PBS on June 24.

AIR DATE 6/24/14

Freedom Summer's Widow

Freedom Summer, Chapter 1

Freedom Summer - Short Clip 1

Pete Seeger and Freedom Summer

What Was Freedom Summer?

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Opposition to Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer's Widow

Freedom Summer, Chapter 1

Freedom Summer - Short Clip 1

Pete Seeger and Freedom Summer

What Was Freedom Summer?

Now Playing

Opposition to Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer's Widow

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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