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DESCRIPTION:Nominated for an Academy Award, this landmark film tells the story of the 
 Mississippi freedom movement in the early 1960s when a handful of young 
 activists changed history.\n\nWhen Bob Moses came to Mississippi in 1961 to 
 head up the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee’s voter 
 registration drive, a Black man could be convicted of “eye rape” for 
 looking at a white woman; all African Americans were denied the right to 
 vote. The first man to accompany Moses to the courthouse to register was 
 later shot dead by a state legislator.\n\nWe witness the growing confidence 
 and courage of poverty-stricken sharecroppers, maids and day laborers as 
 they confront jail, beatings and even murder for the simple right to vote. 
 \n\nIn 1964, organizers, fearing for their lives and hoping to attract the 
 attention of the nation, recruited 1,000 mostly white students from around 
 the country to join them for Freedom Summer helping to transform political 
 power in the South forever, leading to passage of the 1965 Voting Rights 
 Act. Today Mississippi has more Black elected officials than any other 
 state. Those who participated in the struggle took away a profound sense of 
 possibility and a deepened commitment to justice. 1994, 110 
 min.\n\nSponsored by ANSWER Coalition—Act Now to Stop War & End 
 Racism\n\n$6 donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/18/18669520.php
SUMMARY:Black History Month Film Showing "Freedom On My Mind"
LOCATION:ATA, 922 Valencia St. at 21st, SF (near 24th St. BART)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/18/18669520.php
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