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Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 American television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder during Freedom Summer in 1964.
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi Burning murders, were the abduction and murder of three activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in June 1964, during the Civil Rights Movement.
Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney,...
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Feb 5, 1990 · Murder in Mississippi: Directed by Roger Young. With Tom Hulce, Jennifer Grey, Blair Underwood, CCH Pounder. In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three Civil Rights workers who had traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registration.
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- Crime, Drama
- Roger Young
- 1990-02-05
Murder in Mississippi, 1965. In the beginning of 1965, Rockwell began work on an illustration for Look about the June 21, 1964 murders of three young civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Jun 28, 2021 · The 1964 killings of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in Neshoba County sparked national outrage and helped spur passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act ...
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Learn about the 1964 killing of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman by the KKK and the deputy sheriff in Neshoba County, Mississippi. Explore the resources to teach outside the textbook about the Civil Rights Movement and Freedom Summer.
