Documentary: 'Oh Freedom Over Me'
In the summer of 1964, a large group of young white college students from the north went to Mississippi to participate in a civil rights and voter registration drive organized by the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Former MPR reporter and documentarian John Biewen produced a documentary about this in 1994 and created a new version in 2020 for his podcast “Scene on Radio.” This was part of a year-long series on democracy in the U.S. called "The Land That Never Has Been Yet." The series was nominated for a Peabody Award.
Along with Biewen, Chenjerai Kumanyika produced this documentary. Both are of the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies and "Scene on Radio.”
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