Title Work

Title No: 245

Title: Interview with Dave Dennis

Medium: Audio; Documentation; Moving Image

Original Medium: Film; Recorded Sound

Date: 10 Nov  1985 (Created)

Filmed interview with Dave Dennis conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on Freedom Summer, Medgar Evers, James Chaney, and Dennis' reaction to their murders. Also Dennis' work with the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) in Mississippi, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's challenge to the official  Democratic Party.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Duration: 1 hr 0 min 45 sec 

Genres: Interview

Subjects: Mississippi; Mississippi--Politics and government; Mississippi--Social conditions; Civil rights workers--Mississippi; Suffrage--Mississippi; Mississippi Freedom Project; Mississippi--Race relations

Name As Subjects: Evers, Medgar Wiley; Dennis, Dave; Moses, Robert Parris; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Democratic National Convention; Chaney, James Earl; Council of Federated Organizations