The movie Mississippi Burning
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The movie Mississippi Burning presents a fictional account of the very real tragedy that occurred in Philadelphia, Mississippi in June of 1964 when three civil rights advocates were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). While the movie is based on real events, it presents a highly charged and unreal evocation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and their tactics in solving the crime. The movie paints its moral with a thick brush, presenting the KKK's brutality and the FBI's ruthlessness as unequivocal acts of terrorism. The movie opens with the credits rolling over the vivid image of a church burning in the hot Mississippi night. The movie then moves directly to the brutal murder of the three activistsłtwo white, one blackłby hooded members of the KKK. The KKK is depicted in the harshest of lights, as terrorists in the most traditional sense of the word: their goal is to terrorize blacks. But the movie contends that their hatred for the whites who were helping blacks to claim their rights was incandescent and knew no bounds. Perhaps the most appalling quote in the movie refle
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