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	Mississippi Burning
		Mississippi Burning may masquerade as a serious adult drama, but basically the film does to Southern fls what Friday the 13th movies do to teenagers, presenting them as nothing more than meat for the grinder.
		But Mississippi Burning has been chastised (by Chaney's brother and King's widow, among others) for goading audiences into cheering a down-and-Dirty-Harry-style FBI campaign in which the agency, under the directorship of notorious King-hater J. Edgar Hoover, uses the Klan's own illegal vigilante terror tactics against the Klansmen.
		And that's a big reason why it upsets people that Mississippi Burning equates the movement with a fictional concerted act of officially sanctioned terrorism committed against the Klan by crusading white law-enforcement personnel on behalf of a herd of meek, passive, helpless fls.
	cinepad.com /reviews/mississippi.htm (1773 words)

	"Mississippi Burning": Truth in Dramatics
		The civil rights workers came to Mississippi along with hundreds of other students to aid in voter registration during what the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) called the "Freedom Summer." They feared not only a violent reaction from the whites to their program, but the specific violent reaction the three workers suffered.
		In "Mississippi Burning," agent Ward wonders if he and the other F.B.I. agents are provoking a "wave" of white hostility.
		Although those serving or crying for justice are a little over-glorified, "Mississippi Burning" does not shy away from the very real injustice that reigned in Mississippi and that civil rights workers died willingly to change.
	purplebyrd.tripod.com /writing/essays/missburning.html (1443 words)

	JURIST - The "Mississippi Burning" Trial
		The film "Mississippi Burning" portrayed the FBI as the heroes of this story, and the FBI--not often aggressive in its investigation of civil rights abuses at the time-did do commendable work in Mississippi thirty-six years ago.
		The FBI's all-out search for the conspirators who killed the three young men, depicted in the movie "Mississippi Burning," was successful, leading three years later to a trial in the courtroom of one of America's most determined segregationist judges.
		Dennis incriminated Sam Bowers, the founder and Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the KKK of Mississippi.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /trials8.htm (3426 words)

	The DVD Journal: Mississippi Burning
		Certainly its crimes are small in perspective, but taken strictly as work of art, Mississippi Burning is the kind of photoplay that is better suited to the pedantic and simplistic environs of a junior high history class than it is to be exalted as belonging alongside other classics of the medium.
		Meanwhile, Anderson — himself a former Mississippi small-town sheriff — understands the culture of their surroundings and tries a mix of southern charm and backwoods ball-busting to crack the case.
		All that said, Mississippi Burning is made a palatable viewing experience mostly thanks to the dependable talents of Gene Hackman, who always manages to infuse the thinnest of characters with humor, complexity, and humanity.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/m/mississippiburning.shtml (909 words)

	JohnSugg.com: Mississippi Burning
		When a Mississippi judge last week allowed the convicted Ku Klux Klan mastermind of one of the nation's most sensational civil rights era murder cases to be freed on bond, I worried for a town I have grown fond of, Philadelphia, Miss.
		To lure Mickey Schwerner back to Mississippi for, as the Klan called it, "elimination," the congregation at the Mt. Zion United Methodist Church was attacked and beaten, and then on June 16, the church was burned.
		Mississippi authorities failed to prosecute the murderers - although their identities were well known and several had bragged about the crime.
	www.johnsugg.com /mississippi_burning (14308 words)

	Amazon.com: Mississippi Burning: DVD: Gene Hackman,Willem Dafoe,Frances McDormand,Brad Dourif,R. Lee Ermey,Gailard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mississippi Burning, using the real-life 1964 disappearance of three civil rights workers as its inspiration, tells the story of two FBI men (Hackman and Dafoe, entertainingly called "Hoover Boys" by the locals) who come in to try to solve the crime.
		The story line of Mississippi Burning is ultimately unsatisfying--it is, after all, the story of white men coming in to rescue poor fls--but it is beautifully shot and very watchable and features a terrific cast playing at the top of their games.
		Mississippi Burning captures the American South of the 1960s and its turbulent race relations by telling a story that, while technically fictional, is inspired by actual events that took place.
	www.amazon.com /Mississippi-Burning-Gene-Hackman/dp/B000059TFO (2092 words)

	Mississippi Burning Trial: The Movie (1988)
		Mississippi Burning" offers an appalling litany of white supremacist atrocities in the guise of a buddy detective thriller.
		Mississippi Burning is rooted as firmly in film history as it is in social history.
		Mississippi Burning was patently based on the murder of three civil rights workers in June 1964 -- a local fl, James Chaney, and two white Northerners, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/movie.html (1836 words)

	Mississippi Burning News
		Mississippi Burning News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		THREE YOUNG CIVIL RIGHTS WORKERS were killed in 1964 in eastern Mississippi in a case made famous by the 1988 film Mississippi Burning.
		On the 41st anniversary of the heinous murder of three young civil rights activists in Mississippi, a jury was to resume deliberations on the fate of an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klan leader accused of...
	www.topix.net /movies/mississippi-burning (748 words)

	CNN.com - 'Mississippi Burning' trial set to start - Jun 13, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On June 21, the men were heading down the Mississippi back roads to investigate a torched church that was to have been home to a school.
		In 1994, a Mississippi jury in Hinds County convicted self-proclaimed white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 ambush killing of NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi.
		In 1998, another Mississippi jury convicted former Klan imperial wizard Sam Bowers of the 1966 firebomb-killing of an NAACP leader.
	www.cnn.com /2005/LAW/06/12/miss.killings/index.html (898 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Mississippi Burning [1989]: DVD: Gene Hackman,Willem Dafoe,Frances McDormand,Brad Dourif,R. Lee ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mississippi Burning is ultimately unsatisfying--it is, after all, the story of white men coming in to rescue poor fls--but it is beautifully shot and very watchable, featuring a terrific cast playing at the top of their games.
		Based on true events that occurred in Mississippi back in the 60's, English Director Alan Parker's capital G-for-Gritty film is about as close to real-life as you would expect to get, with an extra little spice of life thrown in at good measure.
		Set 1964 in a small town of Mississippi, the story follows the investigation of three missing civil-right workers, two white and one fl, and the FBI's involvement to track them down before the community protest's for them to depart becomes too great, and find who, or who's reasonable.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Mississippi-Burning-Gene-Hackman/dp/B00005KISG (1155 words)

	Mississippi burning: electing a new guv Campaigns & Elections - Find Articles
		But there will not even be an incumbent in the wide-open Mississippi race: Republican Gov. Kirk Fordice is barred by the state constitution from seeking a third four-year term, setting up the first open-seat gubernatorial contest since 1987.
		But Mississippi Democrats are emboldened by a recent turn in Southern politics.
		Democrats hope to build upon their success last year in southwest Mississippi's politically competitive 4th Congressional District, where Democrat Ronnie Shows decisively defeated Delbert Hosemann, a better-funded Republican, in a race for an open seat formerly held by Democrat-turned-Republican Mike Parker.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2519/is_3_20/ai_54421708 (655 words)

	Mississippi Burning: A Selective Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		The Klan is portrayed as a violent vigilante organisation in later films, such as 'Mississippi Burning.' Some of the Klan scenes in 'Fried Green Tomatoes,' such as public floggings, are inaccurate.
		In the movie 'Driving Miss Daisy,' Whites are shown to be the object of Blacks' manipulation, while in 'Mississippi Burning,' Black people are portrayed as helpless beings who are unable to chart their own fate.
		This manuscript includes interviews with parents and teachers concerning the controversial movie, "Mississippi Burning," the dramatic and somewhat fictional story of those senseless killings.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/missburning.html (1486 words)

	Mississippi Burning Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
		Mississippi Burning is an all-names-changed dramatization of the Ku Klux Klan's murders of three civil rights workers in 1964.
		Many critics took the film to task for its implication that the Civil Rights movement might never have gained momentum without its white participants; nor were the critics happy that the FBI was shown to utilize tactics as brutal as the Klan's.
		The title Mississippi Burning is certainly appropriate: nearly half the film is taken up with scenes of smoke and flame.
	www.movieweb.com /dvd/release/18/4418/features.php (261 words)

	WhiteHouseTapes.org :: The secret White House tapes and recordings of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Roosevelt, ...
		James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman went to investigate the burning of the Mt. Zion Church in the Longdale community in Neshoba County, near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
		Mississippi civil rights activists contacted Mississippi-based FBI agents the night before and reached Justice Department official John Doar in the early morning, setting in motion a process to expand the federal presence in Mississippi, although activists believed the government worked too slowly.
		The bill’s victory was bittersweet for activists in Mississippi and the loved ones of the three missing men.
	www.whitehousetapes.org /exhibits/miss_burning/index.htm (2026 words)

	Mississippi Burning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Made in 1988, Mississippi Burning is a serious film about race relations in 1964 Mississippi.
		It tells the true story of two FBI agents (played by Willem Dafoe and Gene Hackman) who are assigned to a missing persons case, and deals with all of the serious issues of the civil rights era.
		One of them, having experienced life in a racist Mississippi town himself, produces conflict within the FBI from the beginning.
	web.rollins.edu /~wboles/filmsofthe80s/mississippi_burning.htm (351 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Mississippi Burning [1989]: Video: Gene Hackman,Willem Dafoe,Alan Parker,Frances McDormand,Brad Dourif,R. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A well-intentioned and largely successful civil rights-era thriller, Mississippi Burning uses the real-life 1964 disappearance of three civil rights workers as its inspiration.
		Hackman is a former Mississippi small-town sheriff himself, while Dafoe is a by-the-numbers young hotshot.
		The storyline of Mississippi Burning is ultimately unsatisfying--it is after all the story of white men coming in to rescue poor fls--but it is beautifully shot, very watchable, and features a terrific cast playing at the top of their games.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Mississippi-Burning-Gene-Hackman/dp/B00005420D (559 words)

	"Mississippi Burning" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		That assumption is correct; the opening scenes show us that they were murdered, and that law enforcement personnel were probably involved in the murders.
		Police harassment; cross burnings; the governor and other politicians: who are supposed to be the honorable leaders of the society, aiding in the abuse.
		In the beginning, the particular group mentioned in Mississippi Burning, the Klu Klux Klan, was formed out of boredum.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2000/mississippiburning.html (888 words)

	WAPT.com - News - Timeline Of 'Mississippi Burning' Case
		In a secret interview with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Samuel Bowers -- who was found guilty in the case -- alleges that Killen was the main perpetrator of the 1964 murders.
		Bowers is sentenced to life in prison for the 1966 murder of NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer.
		Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore announces his intention to reopen the case.
	www.wapt.com /news/4623060/detail.html (639 words)

	WFotW ~ "Barn Burning": SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
		“Fathers and Sons: The Spiritual Quest in Faulkner’s ‘Barn Burning.’” Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Culture 44.3 (Summer 1991): 287-308.
		Moreland, Richard C. “Compulsive and Revisionary Repetition: Faulkner’s ‘Barn Burning’ and the Craft of Writing Difference.” Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction.
		Mortimer, Gail L. “‘Barn Burning’ and The Sound and the Fury as an Introduction to Faulknerian Style and Themes.” Approaches to Teaching Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury.
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~egjbp/faulkner/b_ss_barnburning.html (491 words)

	BBspot - Mississippi Judge Ordered to Remove Twelve-foot Burning Cross From Courthouse
		Jackson, MS - Judge Clinton Marburger continued his refusal to comply with a federal court ruling which ordered him to remove a twelve-foot tall burning cross from his courtroom.
		The perpetually burning cross was installed late one night in July, and met with immediate objections from Civil Rights groups who decried it as a hateful symbol of racism and intolerance.
		A federal court ruled that not only did the burning cross promote a religion, but that Judge Marburger was "out of his fucking mind and should be removed from the bench with extreme prejudice."
	www.bbspot.com /politics/News/2003/08/burning_cross.html (515 words)

	USATODAY.com - Victim's brother: Reopen 'Mississippi Burning' case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		WASHINGTON (AP) — Ben Chaney says he has felt sadness, anger and frustration since his brother, a young civil rights worker, was killed in Mississippi during the "Freedom Summer" of 1964.
		James Chaney, a 21-year-old fl man from Mississippi, and Goodman, 20, and Schwerner, 24, both white men from New York City, were part of the "Freedom Summer" program in Mississippi in which young civil rights workers organized voter education and registration campaigns.
		Bobby Frank Cherry was convicted in 2002 in the 1963 Birmingham, Ala., church bombing that killed four fl girls, and Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in 1994 in the 1963 murder of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-02-24-mississippi-death_x.htm (653 words)

	History of Vaiden, Mississippi -- The Pictures
		Mississippi Burning -- Selected Bibliography from UC Berkeley Library
		These little "tidbits" of information on Klan activity always came in handy, because, since we were allowed to burn our garbage back then (in 55 gallon drums), they made great "kindlin'" for the fire.
		Burning, whether you saw it at the theater, or saw/purchased it on VHS or DVD, there is NO MENTION WHATSOEVER of the name
	www.vaiden.net /movies.html (496 words)

	Amazon.com: Mississippi Burning: DVD: Alan Parker,Gene Hackman,Willem Dafoe,Frances McDormand,Brad Dourif,R. Lee ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Under the slick, professional direction of Alan Parker, Mississippi Burning is the kind of film that will either draw you into its emotionally volatile sphere of influence or outrage you with its repugnant, manipulative revision of American civil rights history.
		The fact-based story brings two highly different FBI agents (Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe) to Mississippi to investigate the murders of three young fl men who had been promoting fl voter registration.
		The key to solving the murders is the testimony of a local deputy's wife (Frances McDormand) who is struggling to break free of her husband's racist influence.
	www.amazon.com /Mississippi-Burning-Alan-Parker/dp/B00005N96A (2433 words)

	DVDown Under Review - Mississippi Burning
		I have seen this film several times before watching it on dvd and every time I see it, it horrifies me. Based on real life occurrences in the back towns of Mississippi, this is one of the most compelling films I have ever seen.
		Set in 1964 when America was terminally backwards in its racial prejudices the KKK was running rampant in the state of Mississippi.
		Gene Hackman plays a streetwise ex Mississippi sheriff and Willem Dafoe is his young straight collar boss.
	dvdownunder.com.au /reviews/mississ.htm (758 words)

	The Mississippi Burning Trial: United States vs. Cecil price et al. (1967)
		It was an old-fashioned lynching, carried out with the help of county officials, that came to symbolize hardcore resistance to integration.
		Dead were three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney, all shot in the dark of night on a lonely road in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
		The FBI's all-out search for the conspirators who killed the three young men, two white and one fl, depicted in the movie "Mississippi Burning," was successful, leading three years later to a trial in the courtroom of one of America's most determined segregationist judges....(
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/price&bowers.htm (163 words)

	The Mississippi Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church
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		Pastors and church mission leaders are invited to participate in special tours of the coast in October and November to see first-hand the progress made in Katrina recovery and the work that remains.
	www.mississippi-umc.org (201 words)

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