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Title American experience - freedom summer. [Kanopy electronic resource]

Publication Info. [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 116 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
digital
Flash video file MPEG-4
Note Title from title frames.
Event Originally produced by PBS in 2014.
Summary In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over 10 memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states -- even in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and death.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject African Americans -- Suffrage -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Ethnicity -- Mississippi -- 20th century.
Political activists -- Mississippi -- 20th century.
Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
African Americans -- Suffrage.
Civil rights movements.
Civil rights workers.
Ethnicity.
Political activists.
Race relations.
Racism.
Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Mississippi.
Genre Documentary television programs.
Added Author Nelson, Stanley, 1955- producer film director.
Readdean, Cyndee, producer.
Bellows, Susan, producer.
Kanopy (Firm)
Music No. 1159486 Kanopy
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