10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: Freedom Summer


Subjects: History, Social Studies
Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12
Source: History Classroom

10 Days: Freedom Summer

This History Classroom documentary chronicles the summer in 1964 where three civil rights workers were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan.

60-minute runtime; two-year copyright clearance.

Dec 3 at 6:00AM ET/PT


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