Mississippi, America: Legal Battles of the Freedom Summer

Presents a documentary on the civil rights movement in Mississippi where blacks organize to qualify for registering to vote.

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"Presents a documentary on the civil rights movement in Mississippi where blacks organize to qualify for registering to vote."@en
"In the summer of 1964, a handful of Mississippi attorneys issued a nationwide call for assistance as they struggled to defend imprisoned civil rights activists. This classic documentary examines the work of local and out-of-state lawyers who answered the call. Through archival footage and riveting eyewitness accounts, the film illuminates the legal dimensions of the frontline battle for African Americans' right to vote. Interviewees include civil rights attorney William Kunstler; U.S. Congressman and former SNCC activist John Lewis (D-Georgia); National Lawyers Guild Mississippi Project director George Crockett; and Dr. Aaron Henry, former Mississippi NAACP president. (57 minutes)."@en
"Documents an important chapter in the history of civil rights in the U.S. Using archival footage and on-camera interviews, the film tells the story of how a coalition of civil rights organizations and thousands of black and white Americans joined forces during the summer of 1964--Freedom Summer--to assist blacks in Mississippi in their fight for the right to register to vote."@en
"This video documents an important chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States. Using archival footage and on-camera interviews, the film tells the story of how a coalition fo civil rights organizations and thousands of black and white Americans, including attorneys from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), joined forces during the summer of 1964--Freedom Summer--to assist blacks in Mississippi in their fight for the right to register to vote. This program gives testimony to persistence and courage in the face of oppression, as citizens and the lawyers who volunteered to help them confront life-threatening violence and government repression in order to win the right to vote. Furthermore, this video documents the larger struggle for social equality that is still being waged today. That summer's challenge to Mississippi's legal and political system reflected a growing national commitment to the application of the right to vote for all Americans, resulting in the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. It paved the way for the mainstream legal community's interest in civil rights and opened the doors for widespread political empowerment for African Americans, not only in Mississippi, but throughout America."
"This documentary presents a look at the work of local and out-of-state lawyers who answered the call for assistance to defend imprisoned civil rights activists. Features archival footage and eyewitness accounts of the struggle to win African Americans' right to vote."
"Examines the civil rights movement as events unfolded in the summer of 1964 in Mississippi."
"In the summer of 1964, a handful of Mississippi attorneys issued a nationwide call for assistance as they struggled to defend imprisoned civil rights activists. This classic documentary examines the work of local and out-of-state lawyers who answered the call. Through archival footage and riveting eyewitness accounts, the film illuminates the legal dimensions of the frontline battle for African Americans' right to vote. Interviewees include civil rights attorney William Kunstler; U.S. Congressman and former SNCC activist John Lewis (D-Georgia); National Lawyers Guild Mississippi Project director George Crockett; and Dr. Aaron Henry, former Mississippi NAACP president."@en
"This program gives testimony to persistence and courage in the face of oppression, as citizens and the lawyers who volunteered to help them confront life-threatening violence and government repression in order to win the right to vote."@en
"" ... 'Mississippi, America' uses archival footage and on-camera interviews to reveal a little known, but important chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States. In 1964, scores of America's attorneys with the National Lawyers Guild and other legal organizations volunteered to assist blacks in Mississippi in their battle for the right to vote. It is a story of the struggle for social equality and political representation that is still being waged today in Mississippi--and America ... [It] reflects an important benchmark in U.S. history and on-going aspects of institutionalized racism."@en