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Title:

Freedom on my mind [videorecording] / produced and directed by Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford ; written and edited by Michael Chandler.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Clarity Educational Productions,

Copyright Date:

c1994

Description:

1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Mississippi Freedom Project.
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Afro-Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi.
Afro-Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi.
Civil rights workers--Mississippi--History--20th century.
Voter registration--Mississippi.
Mississippi--Race relations.

Other Authors:

Field, Connie.
Mulford, Marilyn.
Chandler, Michael.
Clarity Educational Productions.

Summary:

This documentary chronicles the history of the Mississippi Voter Registration Project from 1961 through the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Because there were no black voters in Mississippi in 1961, the organizers of the voter project created their own party, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and recruited mostly white students to come to Mississippi to join in their cause. The party organized a delegation and attended the 1964 Democratic National Convention among much controversy. The film depicts this story with archival film footage and interviews with some of the original participants.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)31992908

Locations:

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)