By the mid twentieth century, Mississippi’s African Americans had suffered from nearly 75 years of Jim Crow discrimination. In order to break open the closed society and improve their lives, they needed to be able to vote. In the summer of 1964, hundreds of young white volunteers converged in Mississippi for a 10-week voter registration campaign. The results of their efforts still reverberate.

Learn more at http://www.mpbonline.org/freedomsummer

Producers:
Taiwo Gaynor
Edie Greene

Writer:
Edie Greene

Location Videography:
Joey Gibson
Jeff Damron
Ryan Bohling

Location Audio:
John Busbice
Jeff Damron
Nick Lalo

Location Lighting:
Jeff Damron
Kenny Sullivan

Editor:
Edie Greene

On-line Editor:
Scott Colwell

Announcer:
LaSharne Patton

Title Animation and Graphics:
Frank Cocke

Audio Post Production:
Taiwo Gaynor
Nick Lalo

Closed Captioning:
Keri Horn

Publicity:
Margaret McPhillips
Mari Irby
Jeannie Huey
Taiwo Gaynor
Laura Mann

Web Extras:
Taiwo Gaynor
Scott Lancaster

Internet and Social Media:
Ashley Jefcoat
Ellie Banks

Educational Component:
Maggie Stevenson

Legal:
Ryanne Duffie Saucier

Production Intern:
Kobee Vance

Humanities Scholar:
Daphne Chamberlain

Director of Production:
Ed Ellington



Special Thanks to
Council of Federated Organizations Civil Rights Education Center of Jackson State University
First Union Baptist Church, Meridian
Foundation for Public Broadcasting in Mississippi
Kosciusko Attala Development Corporation
Omo Moses
Phi Theta Kappa
Tougaloo College
Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement & Cynthia Goodloe Palmer
National Endowment for the Humanities through the Mississippi Humanities Council

Fannie Lou Hamer testifying before the Credentials Committee used by permission of ABC News VideoSource.

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