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Freedom on My Mind

  • 19941994
  • 1h 45m
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Freedom on My Mind (1994)
Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961- 64.
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Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961- 64.Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961- 64.Chronicles the Mississippi voter registration drive from 1961- 64.
IMDb RATING
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    • Connie Field
    • Marilyn Mulford
    • Michael Chandler
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    • Chude Pamela Allen
    • Heather Booth
    • L.C. Dorsey
    • Connie Field
    • Marilyn Mulford
    • Michael Chandler
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    • Chude Pamela Allen
    • Heather Booth
    • L.C. Dorsey
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar

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    Chude Pamela Allen
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    Len Edwards
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    Marshall Ganz
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    Henry E. Garrett
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    Victoria Gray-Adams
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    Curtis Hayes
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    Malva Heffner
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    Endesha Ida Mae Holland
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    Bob Moses
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    Cleve Sellars
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    Ronnie Washington
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      • Connie Field
      • Marilyn Mulford
      • Michael Chandler
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      Endesha Ida Mae Holland: I looked inside and I saw Emma Bell, who's a legend in the Civil Rights Movement. I saw her sittin' at a typewriter, typin'. And I had never seen a black woman that could type like this woman could type! You know, she was typin', she wasn't even lookin' down at the paper. So, I said to myself, "Oh, she's typin' a whole lot of p's and q's. She don't know what she's doin'." And I went on inside the office. I was scared to death because Mama had told me, don't go down near that, foolin' with those folks, because she had to live in this town. And inside and the first I did, once I got inside, was to go look over Emma Bell's shoulder and see what she really was typin'. She hadn't missed a word.

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    Gobsmacked by how relevant this still is!
    I'm not going to pull any punches here: this documentary, made when I was in my early 30s, about the Mississippi voter rights demonstrations has always been difficult for me to watch. (And I'm white and grew up in the South, so I can only imagine the difficulty it presents to the BIPOC communities.) The sheer brutality of the raw violence and the unrelenting psychological terrorism wrought by segregation and racism in the late '50s and early '60s never ceases to bring tears to my eyes, as it has for at least 50 years since I was a small child. But the most disturbing aspect of the film is how much systemic inequality remains, with many similar arguments still being spouted by the ignorant and frightened. Voting rights are *still* under attack in what were the "Dixiecrat" dominated states, like Georgia and Texas, now GOP dominated. The "Black Lives Matter" movement and its most fierce detractors (All Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, etc.) directly echo the Civil Rights Movement of the '60s and it's staunch opponents. As with "hate crimes legislation," the notion that respecting and protecting certain groups of people who have been historically and typically targeted or are especially vulnerable to oppression is in some way granting them "special rights" over and above the majority of people is highly insulting and positively ludicrous. It's 2021, 55-60 years later, yet we're arguing with those same people and trying to fight the same battles. That's why the story, the footage, and the 1st-hand testimony of the people involved are still able to move me to tears. 9/10.
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