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Is This America? Mississippi Summer Project 1964

A short documentary-style film interprets the many facets of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project, including the recruitment of northern white college student volunteers, the murders of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, voter registration forms and handouts, the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's efforts to integrate the state delegation at the Democratic National Convention.

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