Recently in class we have watched film on persecution and prejudice called Mississippi Burning. The film was set in Mississippi and took place in 1964.
The film was about 3 young men who were Civil Rights Activists. They were in Mississippi to set up voting posts so that blacks could vote as well as the whites. Two of the men were white and one black. They were murdered by members of the KKK because they didn't agree with what the men were doing as they didn't think blacks should have the same rights as the whites. The police wouldn't do anything as they were also members of the KKK so the FBI was called in. The KKK are a group of white people who did not accept any one who were Jews, Turks, Mongols, Orientals, Negroes, nor any other person whose native background of culture is foreign to the Anglo-Saxon system of Government by responsible, FREE individual citizens. When the FBI started their investigation they used the wrong approach and as they solved nothing but made other blacks suffer. The only thing that the FBI had realised was how unfair the blacks had been treated and seen how racist people were towards them. Their approach was then changed they had now became more undercover, they set suspects up and threatened them and in the end the men that had killed the three men were found out. They only got charged with violation of civil rights because it was a federal court and murder and other major charges are dealt with at a state court.
The film was about 3 young men who were Civil Rights Activists. They were in Mississippi to set up voting posts so that blacks could vote as well as the whites. Two of the men were white and one black. They were murdered by members of the KKK because they didn't agree with what the men were doing as they didn't think blacks should have the same rights as the whites. The police wouldn't do anything as they were also members of the KKK so the FBI was called in. The KKK are a group of white people who did not accept any one who were Jews, Turks, Mongols, Orientals, Negroes, nor any other person whose native background of culture is foreign to the Anglo-Saxon system of Government by responsible, FREE individual citizens. When the FBI started their investigation they used the wrong approach and as they solved nothing but made other blacks suffer. The only thing that the FBI had realised was how unfair the blacks had been treated and seen how racist people were towards them. Their approach was then changed they had now became more undercover, they set suspects up and threatened them and in the end the men that had killed the three men were found out. They only got charged with violation of civil rights because it was a federal court and murder and other major charges are dealt with at a state court.