American Experience · SEASON 8

Freedom on My Mind

Episode 5 · 1996-01-15

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Episode overview

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.

55 minutes

Season 8 episodes