Winner of the Grand Jury prize at the 1994 Sundance Festival,this story of Freedom Summer is an extraordinary portrait of a keymoment in the Civil Rights Movement, of institutionalized racism inMississippi politics, and of the complicity of the national DemocraticParty in that racism. Freedom Summer 1964 was the culmination of theVoter Registration Project led by the appropriately named Bob Moses, whogalvanized local and national grassroots groups devoted to civil rightsfor African Americans and brought upwards of 1,000 college-studentvolunteers from around the nation to Mississippi, one of the mostviolently segregated states in the country, in preparation for theDemocratic National Convention in Atlantic City. The extraordinarycomplex of relationships that ensued, from the large-scale political tothe interpersonal, is the subject of this film by Connie Field (Rosiethe Riveter) and Marilyn Mulford, in which many of thevolunteers-sharecroppers, day laborers, and students-look back at thesummer that changed their lives and the life of liberal America."Freedom on My Mind rescues the memory of that time with quietintegrity. The film is a gem: understated, moving, and politicallysophisticated..." (Adam Hochschild, This World, S. F.Chronicle)