A film originally produced by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for its southern voter registration drive in 1964, the year of the Mississippi summer. It contains interviews with activists, voter registrants and leaders, including the now famous speech by Fannie Lou Hamer. 

Cut film done with SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee).  Interview-- automation of farming causing unemployment.  Other statements regarding way of life.

Interviews about attacks on Blacks and condition of Blacks. "You need a license to kill a rabbit, but not to kill a negro."  Interviews regarding non-equality in the South.  SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) activity and statements by volunteers.  Fannie Lou Hamer. White volunteers tell their story. Discussion of COFO (Council of Federated Organizations) and MFDP (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party).  Plantation conditions, debutante ball, Langston Hughes poem read.

Note on story card: "Don't use narrator."