Image Source - Freedom Summer (Amazon Prime Video)

Instructions

• Watch the Film - Freedom Summer (Full Film on Amazon Prime Video)
• Read Sundance Film Review: ‘Freedom Summer’

Writing Prompt

• Did the people involved in the events known as Freedom Summer understand what they were doing and how their actions were going to be responded to?

Freedom Summer activists sing before leaving training sessions at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, for Mississippi in June 1964. Ted Polumbaum Collection/Newseum

Additional Resources

• Article - ​A Few Hot Months of Solidarity and Violence - NYTimes
• Video - Freedom Summer: How Civil Rights Activists Braved Violence to Challenge Racism in 1964 Mississippi - Democracy Now!
• National Archives - Freedom Summer