Nominated for an Academy Award, Freedom On My Mind tells the inspiring story of the Mississippi freedom movement in the early 1960s when a handful of idealistic young activists believed they could change history, and did. Bob Moses, then a young Harvard student, recalls how we went to Mississippi, the center of massive resistance to integration in the South, to head the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee's voter registration drive. Through interviews and news footage, we witness the growing confidence and courage of poverty stricken sharecroppers, maids and day-laborers as they confront jail, beatings and even murder for the simple right to vote. Freedom Summer helped transform political power in the South forever, paving the way for passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.Price: $55.00
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