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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.
Feb 5, 1990 · Based on a true story, this 1990 crime drama depicts the last three weeks of three civil rights workers who were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. The movie features Tom Hulce, Jennifer Grey, Blair Underwood and CCH Pounder, and won a Primetime Emmy.
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- Crime, Drama
- Roger Young
- 1990-02-05
Jun 28, 2021 · The three Freedom Summer workers, all in their 20s, had been investigating the burning of a black church near Philadelphia, Mississippi when they disappeared in June of 1964.
- 4 min
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.
- American Experience
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, 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.
