Freedom Summer, and an interview with director Stanley Nelson
"Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hooks because our lives be threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?" - Fannie Lou Hamer Before and during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, this was the climate faced by African Americans who wanted to vote and have their voices heard, especially in Mississippi. The Freedom Ride movement in 1961 ignited a chain of events that led to Freedom Summer in 1964, where groups of white activists from the north converged with black activists from the South to plan a landmark initiative: they would go to the homes of African American Mississippians in the summer of 1964 and encourage them to vote. The prospective voters and activists alike faced grave dangers whilst standing up for justice, but they knew something had to be done, even though they faced the possibility of never being seen again. This is the first fil...