

Director / Creator: Stanley Nelson
In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created freedom schools, and established the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Fifty years later, eyewitness accounts and never-before-seen archival material tell their story. Not all of them would make it through.

Anthony Harris

Bruce Watson

Karin Kunstler Goldman

Julian Bond

Dudley Connor

Dorothy Zellner

Peggy Jean Connor

Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons

Patti Miller

Tracy Sugarman

Larry Rubin

Rita Schwerner Bender

Hollis Watkins

Wally Butterworth

William Winter

William J. Simmons

William Scarborough

John Dittmer

Charlie Cobb

Eleanor Holmes Norton