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.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 5 wins & 1 nomination total
Ella Baker
- Self
- (archive footage)
Fred Berger
- Self - Delegate, Mississippi
- (archive footage)
John Chancellor
- Self
- (archive footage)
Henry E. Garrett
- Self
- (archive footage)
Robert Goralski
- Self - NBC News White House
- (archive footage)
Fannie Lou Hamer
- Self - Freedom Democratic Party
- (archive footage)
Aaron Henry
- Self - Freedom Democratic Party
- (archive footage)
Hubert H. Humphrey
- Self
- (archive footage)
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- TriviaThis film has a 100% rating based on 5 critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
- Goofs(at around 17 mins) The narrator refers to 1960, when the Democratic party 'became a house divided' with 'John Kennedy occupying the White House.' Although Kennedy was elected in 1960, he did not 'occupy' the White House until after his swearing in ceremony on January 20, 1961.
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L.C. Dorsey: The straw boss, the agent, the guy who was hired to run the operation, like a business manager, was opposed to us going to school when there was work to be done. And he had a rule. He would go around and say that these kids are too big to be in school, any way, and they need to be in the field. And my father so so adamant about going to school until - he would walk us to the bus stop with this gun every morning.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 67th Annual Academy Awards (1995)
Featured review
"Freedom on My Mind" is a documentary about the efforts in the early to mid 1960s to get the state of Mississippi to move into the modern age. Up until then, the state deliberately did all it could to prevent black people from registering to vote...either by intimidation or violence. The story starts in 1961 and continues up through the DNC convention in 1964 when it tried (rightfully so) to seat its own delegates instead of the ones imposed on blacks in Mississippi.
If you watch this expertly crafted and very compelling film, please watch the credits to see where many of the interviewees are today. I was so proud to see that one of the black people who had been molested later went on to become a professor...and it made me tear up a bit. Well worth seeing and a great history lesson. It's a shame, however, that most Americans today don't even realize all this happened...and I taught US history, so I know that we have so quickly forgotten our past.
If you watch this expertly crafted and very compelling film, please watch the credits to see where many of the interviewees are today. I was so proud to see that one of the black people who had been molested later went on to become a professor...and it made me tear up a bit. Well worth seeing and a great history lesson. It's a shame, however, that most Americans today don't even realize all this happened...and I taught US history, so I know that we have so quickly forgotten our past.
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- Gross US & Canada
- $71,176
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,272
- Jun 26, 1994
- Gross worldwide
- $71,176
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