Film
Mississippi: Is This America? (1963-1964)
Tickets are free of charge but required for entry.
Mississippi’s grass-roots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters and three activists are murdered. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City.
Post-screening discussion moderated by Dr. Leslie Wilson to follow.
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Genre
African-American Interest, Documentary, Historical Interest, Politics
Runtime
57 min
Section
Price of Liberty
Release Year
1987
Director
Orlando Bagwell
Producer
Orlando Bagwell, Henry Hampton
Subject
Ella Baker, Unita Blackwell, Julian Bond, Tom P. Brody, Dave Dennis
Country
USA