Aired: Oct 16, 1995A documentary chronicling the events surrounding the murder of famed architec...
American Experience
Season 8 Episode 5: Freedom on My Mind
In the summer of 1964, two groups converged in Mississippi: one mostly young, white and well educated from out of state; the other, African Americans who lived in the most violently segregated state. Recruits in a nonviolent army, together they fought the white political establishment to register black voters, create schools and bring national attention to the struggle. It was a summer of rage, pain and enormous danger.
