The movie loosely depicts the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwermer.
they were civil rights workers
Seven defendants were convicted in the Mississippi Burning case for violating the civil rights of the three civil rights workers who were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964.
It is a movie about the search for the Ku Klux Klan murderers of the civil rights workers near Philadelphia Mississippi.
It is a movie about the search for the Ku Klux Klan murderers of the civil rights workers near Philadelphia Mississippi.
Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Longdale, Neshoba County
Philadelphia, Mississippi
Winson Hudson has written: 'Mississippi Harmony' -- subject(s): African American women civil rights workers, African Americans, Biography, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Civil rights workers, History, Race relations, School integration, Segregation
Mississippi and Alabama
"Mississippi Burning" refers to the 1964 murders of three civil rights activists by the Ku Klux Klan, which highlighted the deep-seated racial tensions and violence in the American South. The case was significant because it exposed the extent of systemic racism and discrimination in Mississippi and led to federal intervention and increased support for the Civil Rights Movement.
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum was created in 2011.
The three young men were being chased in "Mississippi Burning" because they were civil rights activists investigating the disappearance of a black civil rights worker. They were targeted by members of the Ku Klux Klan who were opposed to their efforts to bring about social change and racial equality.
The FBI was able to finally find the murders of the civil rights workers by setting up a an undercover investigation where they have a black FBI agent act as a crazy kidnapper. The FBI agent kidnaps the mayor and gets him revel the names of members of the local KKK. Then the FBI brings in some of these members and gets one of them to testify against the others.