Julian Bond narrates MPR documentary, 'O Freedom Over Me'
In a Jan. 20, 1966 file photo, Julian Bond, 26, of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who was refused his seat in the Georgia House of Representatives because of his stand against the Viet Nam War, speaks at a press conference, at the Drake Hotel in New York. Bond died Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015, in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., after a brief illness, the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a statement released Sunday morning. He was 75.
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An MPR documentary "O Freedom Over Me," produced by John Biewen and Kate Cavett about the 1964 Freedom Summer and narrated by one of its principal organizers Julian Bond. The life-long civil rights activist died last weekend at the age of 75. Bond said Freedom Summer was "a peaceful program to bring democracy to Mississippi." You'll hear two Minnesotans who participated, and the voices of many others, in this 1994 Minnesota Public Radio documentary.
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