• Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 American television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman...
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    workers' murders, or the Mississippi Burning murders, were the abduction and murder of three activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in June 1964, during the...
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  • Murder in Mississippi may refer to: Murder in Mississippi law Murder in Mississippi (painting), a 1965 painting by Norman Rockwell Murder in Mississippi...
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  • Gerolmo that is loosely based on the 1964 murder investigation of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi. It stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe...
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  • Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American biographical courtroom drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, and James...
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  • lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and...
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  • and activist who pursued justice after the murder of her 14-year-old son Emmett in August 1955. The film stars Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie and Jalyn...
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    Cecil Price (category Accidental deaths in Mississippi)
    County, Mississippi. He was a member of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. While he was never charged with the murders, Price was convicted in October...
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    Medgar Evers (category People murdered in Mississippi)
    changes in the segregated society. In 1963 Evers was awarded the NAACP Spingarn Medal. Evers was murdered in 1963 at his home in Jackson, Mississippi, now...
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  • Mississippi Cold Case is a 2007 feature documentary produced by David Ridgen of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about the Ku Klux Klan murders of...
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  • Byron De La Beckwith (category People convicted of murder by Mississippi)
    who murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1964, he was tried twice on a murder charge in Mississippi. The...
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  • Americans in Mississippi to vote; their deaths are now known as the Mississippi Burning Murders. Fox's objective was not to follow the murder trail, but...
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  • Pruitt Taylor Vince (category American male film actors)
    roles in the films Mississippi Burning (1988), Jacob's Ladder (1990), JFK (1991), Identity (2003), and Constantine (2005). He played J.J. Laroche in The...
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  • wants Joe to go undercover in Mississippi and infiltrate "The Brotherhood", a white supremacist biker gang linked to the murders of government officials...
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  • The film later found a strong cult following among Murphy and Lawrence’s fans, establishing Life as a cult classic. In 1997, at the Mississippi State...
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    Mississippi (/ˌmɪsəˈsɪpi/ MISS-ə-SIP-ee) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the...
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  • from Philadelphia, who becomes embroiled in a murder investigation in a small town in Mississippi. The film was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from John...
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  • Cayhall is tried for murder in the bombing, and is eventually convicted and sentenced to die in the gas chamber at the Mississippi State Penitentiary....
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    the Mississippi State Penitentiary, a Mississippi Department of Corrections prison for men. It is noted for being the site of several racist murders, including...
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  • film $10 million in ticket sales. (The film earned more than $19 million at the box office.) In his book Murder Most Queer (2014), Jordan Schildcrout describes...
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    Place: A Mississippi Story is a 2012 documentary film about Booker Wright, an African-American waiter who worked in a restaurant for whites only. In 1965...
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    in the romantic drama film Mississippi Masala (1991). She later appeared in American and international film productions, including A Perfect Murder (1998)...
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    Glen Edward Rogers (category 1993 murders in the United States)
    allege that after murdering Gallagher, Rogers fled to the Southeast, living for a time in Mississippi, Florida, and Louisiana. In each state, he was...
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  • suicide of his wife, Clinton, Mississippi Homicide Detective Lucas Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal...
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    Roberts is also deceased. The film Mississippi Burning (1988) is based on the events surrounding the White Knights' murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner...
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  • The Minute You Wake Up Dead (category Films shot in Mississippi)
    up – confirming the intelligence of a fraudster mass-murdering waitress in Bare Hollow, Mississippi. Cole Hauser as Russ Potter Jaimie Alexander as Delaine...
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  • 14-year-old black boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955. He was brutally murdered by two white men after a white woman falsely claimed...
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  • Mamie Till (category People from Tallahatchie County, Mississippi)
    activist. She was the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old youth murdered in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, after accusations that he had whistled at a...
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  • in the short story collection Knight's Gambit. The PG-rated film was filmed in the Mississippi counties of Alcorn and Itawamba. Although released in 1972...
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    David Ridgen (category Canadian documentary film directors)
    buried in them overnight. This film won a Bronze Plaque Award at the Columbus International Film and Video Festival. Ridgen made Return to Mississippi in 2004...
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