'Mississippi Burning' filmreferat

This movie is directed by Alan parker and from the 60’s in USA

The movie Mississippi began with a gospel music playing on the back ground, a song by black women, who is sing about the difficult life that the black people in Mississippi lived in.

And then we watched a car followed by another car, which was trying to run the car with the students of the road. In the first car there were two white people and one black man, this is the civil rights and they came to Mississippi to help the black people to register to vote in the local elections, but on their way from the town, three white man from k.k.k and the local police were behind them, and then the movie began.

Two men from FBI came to Mississippi to investigate what happened on 21 of July 1964, to those students that disappeared, the older agent came from Mississippi and new the situations and what the k.k.k were capable of doing in the south.

Ward, having command, he try to talk to the local black citizens, against Andersons wish, but none of the black will talk to him for fear of KKK, who govern in the city. They even have control of the police, which are members of the clan.