Julian Bond narrates MPR documentary: 'O Freedom Over Me'
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This is History Week on MPR News Presents, and today we remember an important person in American history who died this year. Life-long civil rights activist Julian Bond passed away in August at the age of 75. He narrated a Minnesota Public Radio documentary about one of the events in which he was a major participant, the 1964 Freedom Summer. The documentary "O Freedom Over Me" was produced by John Biewen and Kate Cavett.
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