FULL DOCUMENTARY - 1964: The Fight for a Right | MPB
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.
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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.
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