Summer in Mississippi


Summer in Mississippi is a 1965 Canadian documentary short from Beryl Fox, produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and first shown on This Hour Has Seven Days.

Synopsis

Director/producer Beryl Fox traveled to Mississippi after the bodies of the three civil rights workers working for the Freedom Summer project were found in August 1964. This cinéma-vérité documentary was made for the popular television news magazine program This Hour Has Seven Days.

Awards

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