June 20, 1994
"O Freedom Over Me" - Freedom Summer, 1964 documentaryShare
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John Biewen - Interviewer, Kate Cavett - Producer, John Scherf - Technical Director, Julian Bond - Narrator, Mamie Cotton - Interviewee, Unita Blackwell - Interviewee, Roy Wilkins - Speaker, Bob Moses - Interviewee, David Billings - Interviewee, Henry Allen - Interviewee, Hollis Watkins - Interviewee, Bob Zellner - Interviewee, Robbie Osman - Interviewee, Fannie Lee Chaney - Interviewee, Paul B. Johnson - Interviewee, Rosie Head - Interviewee, Joe Morse - Interviewee, Michael Sayer - Interviewee, Dean Zimmerman - Interviewee, Dorie Ladner - Interviewee, Chude Pam Parker Allen - Interviewee, Matt Suarez - Interviewee, Mary King - Interviewee, Fannie Lou Hamer - Speaker, Euvester Simpson - Interviewee, J.J. Russell - Interviewee, Georgiana Kaminsky - Interviewee, Lawrence Guyot - Interviewee, Leslie McLemore - Interviewee, Walter Mondale - Interviewee, Frank Smith - Interviewee, Dave Dennis - Interviewee
A Midday broadcast of O Freedom Over Me, an MPR documentary that takes a look at Freedom Summer, 1964. American RadioWorks correspondent John Biewen interviews Freedom Summer veterans. Though their stories, he revisits the dramatic events of the Mississippi Summer and explores how the Summer helped shaped racial politics in America for years to come.
The summer of 1964 is remembered for the murders, in Mississippi, of three young civil rights workers—James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman. But there's another story behind that event: the story of Freedom Summer, a campaign led by young civil rights workers and dependent on the bravery of ordinary black Mississippians.
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