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Murder in Mississippi

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Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 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. [1]

24 relations: Andrew Goodman, Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan, Blair Underwood, CCH Pounder, Civil and political rights, Civil rights movement in popular culture, David L. Wolper, Docudrama, Elmer Bernstein, Freedom Summer, History, James Chaney, Jennifer Grey, Josh Charles, Michael Schwerner, Mississippi Burning, Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, Norman Rockwell, Roger Young (director), Stanley Weiser, Television film, Tom Hulce, Walton Goggins, Warner Bros. Television.

Andrew Goodman

Andrew Goodman (November 23, 1943 – June 21, 1964) was one of three American activists of the Civil Rights Movement and also a social worker, murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer in 1964 by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

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Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs.

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Blair Underwood

Blair Erwin Underwood (born August 25, 1964) is an American television, film, and stage actor and director.

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CCH Pounder

Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder (born December 25, 1952), known professionally as CCH Pounder, is a Guyanese American actress.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Civil rights movement in popular culture

The 1954 to 1968 civil rights movement contributed strong cultural threads to American and international theater, song, film, television, and folk art.

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David L. Wolper

David Lloyd Wolper (January 11, 1928 – August 10, 2010) was an American television and film producer, responsible for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, North & South, L.A. Confidential, and the blockbuster Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).

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Docudrama

A docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of radio and television programming, feature film, and staged theatre, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events.

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Elmer Bernstein

Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor who is best known for his film scores.

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Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.

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History

History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.

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James Chaney

James Earl Chaney (May 30, 1943 – June 21, 1964), from Meridian, Mississippi, was one of three American civil rights workers who was murdered during Freedom Summer by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi.

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Jennifer Grey

Jennifer Grey (born March 26, 1960) is an American actress.

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Josh Charles

Joshua Aaron Charles (born September 15, 1971) is an American actor.

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Michael Schwerner

Michael Henry "Mickey" Schwerner (November 6, 1939 – June 21, 1964), was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) field/social workers killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

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Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker.

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Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner

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, involved three activists that were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi in June 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Norman Rockwell

Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American author, painter and illustrator.

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Roger Young (director)

Roger E. Young (born 13 May 1942 in Champaign, Illinois) is an American TV and film director.

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Stanley Weiser

Stanley Weiser is an American screenwriter.

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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Tom Hulce

Thomas Edward "Tom" Hulce (born December 6, 1953) is an American actor, singer and theater producer.

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Walton Goggins

Walton Sanders Goggins Jr. (born November 10, 1971) is an American actor.

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Warner Bros. Television

Warner Bros.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_Mississippi

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