Mississippi Burning
Klansmen murder investigation
Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American film depicting the FBI investigation of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi.
The title refers to a code name for the FBI case.
The film dramatizes the violent resistance to civil rights in the segregated South: Have you seen Mississippi Burning?
- racismPrejudice based on ethnicity
- racial hatredAnimosity toward ethnic groups
- 1960sDecade after the fifties
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- FBIU.S. domestic intelligence agency
Gene Hackman · federal investigation · voter registration · lynching · Willem Dafoe · true crime drama · Emmett Till · Voting Rights Act · NAACP · Jim Crow laws · Ku Klux Klan · investigation · Medgar Evers · segregation · law enforcement · racial violence · CORE · Bloody Sunday
- 1988Rain Man, Die Hard, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Beetlejuice, Coming to America
- Mississippi HistoryVicksburg, Jackson, Natchez, Biloxi, antebellum
- Political ThrillersThe Manchurian Candidate, No Way Out, The Pelican Brief, Argo, JFK
Mississippi BurningSelma
Alabama civil rights city
Freedom Summer · Do the Right Thing · Malcolm X · 13th · Just Mercy
Mississippi BurningGreen Book
Directory of safe establishments
Driving Miss Daisy · The Help · Remember the Titans · 42 · Hairspray
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