Oh freedom over me / by John Biewen
Radio documentary on Freedom Summer.
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Creator
Biewen, John
American RadioWorks
National Endowment for the Humanities
Date of Original
2001
Subject
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi
Civil rights--Mississippi
Civil rights workers--Mississippi
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi
Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Mississippi Freedom Project
Mississippi Freedom Schools
Race relations
Mississippi--Race relations
Location
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
Medium
sound recordings
documentaries and factual works
black-and-white photographs
texts (document genres)
transcripts
Type
Collection
Description
Web site companion to a radio documentary of the same name produced by American Radio Works. The site explores the events of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer through interviews with Freedom Summer veterans. It contains transcripts of interviews with selected volunteers, audio files of the documentary, and a slide show of black-and-white photographs taken in 1964., The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
Contributing Institution
American Public Media
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