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A TV film that dramatized the last weeks of three civil rights activists murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1964. It starred Tom Hulce, Jennifer Grey, Blair Underwood and Josh Charles, and was based on a Norman Rockwell painting.
Feb 20, 2017 · Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and Jame...
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: 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
Rockwell conceived Murder in Mississippi as a horizontal composition to run across two pages. The young men would be pictured on the left page and Philadelphia Deputy Price and the posse of Klansmen wielding sticks (we later learned all were armed with rifles and shotguns) on the right.
The story of the 1964 killing of three civil rights workers in Mississippi and the long legal battle for justice. Learn about the FBI investigation, the federal trial, and the impact of the case on the Civil Rights movement.
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In 1964, New York City activist Mickey Schwerner (Tom Hulce) takes a field position in rural Mississippi on behalf of the civil rights group known as the Congress of Racial Equality...
- Drama
