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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.
- Crime, Drama
- Stanley Weiser
Feb 5, 1990 · 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. Examines the last three weeks in the lives of the slain activists.
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- Crime, Drama
- Roger Young
- 1990-02-05
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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 (CORE).
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- Roger Young
- Drama
- Tom Hulce
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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.
Synopsis. Three white kids travel down to Mississippi to help with voter registration. Murder, sex slavery and general unsavoriness follow. Cast. Sheila Britt. Carol Lee Byrd. Sam Stewart. Phil Loving. Derek Crane. Sheriff Engstrom. Lew Stone. Luther Barnes. Martin St. John.
