Eyes on the Prize Mississippi: Is This America?: 1962-1964 (Season 1, Episode 5)
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TV Episode | 57 min | Documentary, History

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Eyes on the Prize

Mississippi: Is This America?: 1962-1964 (Season 1, Episode 5)

TV-PG

TV Episode | 57 min | Documentary, History

1964 sees the advent of Freedom Summer. Volunteers from across the country travel to the south to register Negro voters. Despite the disappearance of three volunteers in Mississippi who are later found dead, the Mississippi Freedom ...See more1964 sees the advent of Freedom Summer. Volunteers from across the country travel to the south to register Negro voters. Despite the disappearance of three volunteers in Mississippi who are later found dead, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party is formed after blacks are banned from the regular state Democratic. The summer ends with both democratic parties struggling to be recognized at the national convention in Atlantic City. Written by Havan Ironoak See less

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32 cast members

Name	Known for
Ella Baker Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Rita Schwerner Bender Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Freedom Summer (2014)
Unita Blackwell Self Self See fewer	Eyes on the Prize (1987)
Julian Bond Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Greased Lightning (1977)
Tom P. Brody Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Hodding Carter III Self Self See fewer	The American Ruling Class (2005)
Fannie Chaney Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Dave Dennis Self Self See fewer	Before the Memories Fade: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement (2012)
Medgar Evers Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Myrlie Evers-Williams Self (as Myrlie Evers) Self (as Myrlie Evers) See fewer	American Playhouse (1980)
James Farmer Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Adam Clayton Powell (1989)
James Forman Self (archive footage) (as Jim Forman) Self (archive footage) (as Jim Forman) See fewer	Eyes on the Prize (1987)
Andrew Goodman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Carolyn Goodman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Robert Goodman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Robert Goralski Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (1970)
Victoria Gray-Adams Self Self See fewer	Freedom on My Mind (1994)
Lawrence Guyot Self Self See fewer	Spies of Mississippi (2014)
Fannie Lou Hamer Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Fannie (2022)
J. Edgar Hoover Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Next of Kin (1942)
Hubert H. Humphrey Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Candidate (1972)
Lyndon B. Johnson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Spartamerika
John F. Kennedy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Profiles in Courage (1964)
Allard K. Lowenstein Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
Walter Mondale Self Self See fewer	The Reagan Presidency (2012)
Bob Moses Self Self See fewer	Freedom on My Mind (1994)
Edwin Newman Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Pelican Brief (1993)
Peter Orris Self Self See fewer	Eyes on the Prize (1987)
Joe Rauh Self Self See fewer	Eyes on the Prize (1987)
William J. Simmons Self Self See fewer	Eyes on the Prize (1987)
Robert L.T. Smith Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Roy Wilkins Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Black Journal (1968)