Series: American Experience
Season: Season 8
Episode Number: 5
Air Date:
Duration: 55 min
In the summer of 1964, two groups converged in Mississippi: one mostly young, white and well educated from out of state; the other, African Americans who lived in the most violently segregated state. Recruits in a nonviolent army, together they fought the white political establishment to register black voters, create schools and bring national attention to the struggle. It was a summer of rage, pain and enormous danger.
Connie Field
Director
Susan Sarandon
Narrator (voice)