Docs & Dialogue: 1964: The Fight for a Right

Docs & Dialogue: 1964: The Fight for a Right (McNabbBranch)
Wednesday, July 22nd, 5:00 p.m.

Before Selma, there was Freedom Summer, a 10-week voterregistration campaign that would change America forever. In 1964, when civilrights activists devised a daring plan to force change, Black Mississippianshad already endured nearly 100 years of Jim Crow. From mid-June through August,hundreds of volunteers descended on Mississippi, turning the nation’s attentionto the legalized injustice occurring across the South. The summer was a complexmixture of vision, political maneuvering, bigotry, brutality, and bravery, andalthough that protest permanently changed America, voting issues persist tothis day.

This free public program runs approximately 56 minutes andis made possible through PBS.