| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: Freedom Summer. Dir. and prod. by Marco Williams. History Channel, 2006. 60 mins. (A&E Home Video, P.O. Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407; 888-423-1212; http://www.store.aetv.com/)
This gripping documentary opens with Edgar Ray Killen's 2005 trial for his role in the deaths of three civil rights workers (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) in Mississippi forty-one years earlier. It ends with his manslaughter conviction. But the program does not dwell on Killen or the Ku Klux Klan, to which he belonged. Instead, it emphasizes the voting rights struggle's significance in 1960s Mississippi, discusses efforts to find and try the killers, and briefly assesses the long-term impact of the state's African American enfranchisement campaign. The style is clear, direct, and informative.	1
Linked together by an unseen narrator, the program relies primarily on interviews, with archival footage and photographs frequently intercut, and it sometimes has civil rights songs and incidental music playing in the background. The interviewees are seven civil rights activists; two white Freedom Summer volunteers; academics Howard Ball, Clayborne Carson, John Dittmer, and Gerald Gill; and Jerry Mitchell, a white Jackson, Mississippi, journalist who pushed for the reopening of the case. Extracts from President Lyndon B. Johnson's White House tapes are also heard.	. . .

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