Freedom summer
2014
DVD
In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over ten 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.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781627890229
Description:
- 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- digital optical
- NTSC
- video file DVD video
Target Audience Note: MPAA: TVPG.
Other Title: American experience (Television program)
Notes:
- Originally broadcast by PBS June 24, 2014.
- DVD, Region 1, NTSC, 5.1 surround.
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Publisher or Distributor Number: 11072516
Control Number: 1044283
UPC: 841887021289
Publisher: Arlington, VA : distributed by PBS Distribution.Subjects:
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Suffrage -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
- Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
- Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
- Ethnicity -- Mississippi -- 20th century.
- Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
- Political activists -- Mississippi -- 20th century.
- Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Historical television programs.
- Nonfiction television programs.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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