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Freedom Summer is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Stanley Nelson Jr. released in USA on 17 january 2014

Freedom Summer (2014)

Freedom Summer
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Released in USA 17 january 2014
Length 1h53
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OriginUSA
Rating76% 3.845873.845873.845873.845873.84587

Freedom Summer is a 2014 American documentary film, written, produced and directed by Stanley Nelson Jr.. The film had its world premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014.

It won the Best Documentary award at 2014 Pan African Film Festival. The film had its U.S. television premiere at PBS on June 24, 2014.

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The film narrates the events of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, when more than 700 student activists took segregated Mississippi by storm because of underscored by the systematic exclusion of African Americans from the political process. Robert Parris Moses of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee developed a campaign to bring a thousand volunteers to canvassed for voter registration, creating freedom schools and establishing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

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