Freedom Song

Genres

Overview

Freedom Song is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle of African Americans to register to vote in the fictional town of Quinlan. In the midst of the Freedom Summer, a group of high school students in the small town are eager to make grassroots changes in their own community. The young activists meet resistance not only from white southerners, but from their parents, who have experienced firsthand the violence that can result from speaking out. As high school students band together with the support of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, they make strides in registering African-American voters and gaining awareness for their cause.

Directors

Phil Alden Robinson

Writers

Phil Alden RobinsonWriter

Stanley WeiserWriter

Cast

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Danny Glover

Will Walker

Vicellous Shannon

Owen Walker

Vondie Curtis-Hall

Daniel Wall

Loretta Devine

Evelyn Walker

Glynn Turman

T-Bone Lanier

Stan Shaw

Archie Mullen