The 1988 movie “Mississippi Burning” directed by Alan Parker, is loosely based on true life events surrounding an FBI investigation that followed the 1964 murder of three civil rights activists by members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in a small Mississippi town.  The investigation led to the conviction of some prominent figures in the town including members of both the sheriff’s and mayor’s offices […]

The 1988 film tells a fictionalization version of the investigation into the real-life murder of civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. The film focuses on the two fictional FBI investigators who go to Mississippi to investigate the murders. The FBI agents are portrayed as heroes who descend into this injustice in the hundreds, however in reality the real FBI agents and the justice department reluctantly protected the Civil Rights […]

Oleh Jonathan Rosenbaum’s critique of the 1988 film “Mississippi Burning” draws much of its intellectual adn emotional response to the film from Rosenbaum’s personal experiences as a participant in the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. The article — which casts the movie “Mississippi Burning” in a pretty much unfavorable light due to what Rosenbaum feels is a deliberate series of distortions of historical fact […]

The 1988 movie “Mississippi Burning” directed by Alan Parker, is loosely based on true life events surrounding an FBI investigation that followed the 1964 murder of three civil rights activists by members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in a small Mississippi town.  The investigation led to the conviction of some prominent figures in the town including members of both the sheriff’s and mayor’s offices […]