By the mid twentieth century, Mississippi’s African Americans had suffered from nearly 75 years of Jim Crow discrimination. In order to break open the closed society and improve their lives, they needed to be able to vote. In the summer of 1964, hundreds of young white volunteers converged in Mississippi for a 10-week voter registration campaign. The results of their efforts still reverberate. Learn more at http://www.mpbonline.org/freedomsummer Producers: Taiwo Gaynor Edie Greene Writer: Edie Greene Location Videography: Joey Gibson Jeff Damron Ryan Bohling Location Audio: John Busbice Jeff Damron Nick Lalo Location Lighting: Jeff Damron Kenny Sullivan Editor: Edie Greene On-line Editor: Scott Colwell Announcer: LaSharne Patton Title Animation and Graphics: Frank Cocke Audio Post Production: Taiwo Gaynor Nick Lalo Closed Captioning: Keri Horn Publicity: Margaret McPhillips Mari Irby Jeannie Huey Taiwo Gaynor Laura Mann Web Extras: Taiwo Gaynor Scott Lancaster Internet and Social Media: Ashley Jefcoat Ellie Banks Educational Component: Maggie Stevenson Legal: Ryanne Duffie Saucier Production Intern: Kobee Vance Humanities Scholar: Daphne Chamberlain Director of Production: Ed Ellington Special Thanks to Council of Federated Organizations Civil Rights Education Center of Jackson State University First Union Baptist Church, Meridian Foundation for Public Broadcasting in Mississippi Kosciusko Attala Development Corporation Omo Moses Phi Theta Kappa Tougaloo College Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement & Cynthia Goodloe Palmer National Endowment for the Humanities through the Mississippi Humanities Council Fannie Lou Hamer testifying before the Credentials Committee used by permission of ABC News VideoSource. Copyright © MAET 2018