Pete Seeger and Freedom Summer

Season 26 Episode 6

We interviewed Pete Seeger last April for the upcoming doc Freedom Summer, coming June 24.

Folk singer Pete Seeger was performing for a Meridian, Mississippi church congregation when he got word that the bodies of missing civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney had been found. American Experience interviewed him about this experience in April 2013. "Freedom Summer" premieres on PBS June 24, 2014.

AIR DATE 6/24/14

Freedom Summer's Widow

Freedom Summer, Chapter 1

Freedom Summer - Short Clip 1

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Pete Seeger and Freedom Summer

What Was Freedom Summer?

Opposition to Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer's Widow

Freedom Summer, Chapter 1

Freedom Summer - Short Clip 1

Now Playing

Pete Seeger and Freedom Summer

What Was Freedom Summer?

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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