Mississippi Burning - Fact vs. Fiction

Essay from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: keine, University of Marburg, language: English, abstract: Alan Parker's movie Mississippi Burning is set in a small town in the state of Mississippi. The plot of the movie plays in 1964 when the three civil rights activists Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, traveling in a car at night, are forced off the road and out of their car and shot by members of the Ku-Klux-Klan. The FBI is put on the case ...