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In 1964, New York City activist Mickey Schwerner (Tom Hulce) takes a field position in rural Mississippi on behalf of the civil rights group known as the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
- (9)
- Roger Young
- Drama
- Tom Hulce
Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 American television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder during Freedom Summer in 1964.
A personal account of the circumstances surrounding the murder of three Civil Rights workers in Mississippi during the voter registration drives of the summer in '64.
Murder in Mississippi: Directed by Joseph P. Mawra. With Sheila Britt, Sam Stewart, Derek Crane, Lew Stone. Liberal students from Northern cities drive to the South to encourage social justice reform. The overture is confusing with a realism from criminals in office and a hint of national sentiment leaning towards equality for all.
- (211)
- Crime, Drama
- Joseph P. Mawra
- 1965-10
Feb 5, 1990 · Murder in Mississippi: Directed by Roger Young. With Tom Hulce, Jennifer Grey, Blair Underwood, CCH Pounder. In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three Civil Rights workers who had traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registration.
- (538)
- Crime, Drama
- Roger Young
- 1990-02-05
White dilettante Carol Lee Byrd (a solid performance by Sheila Britt) and her two friends are arrested by mean racist Sheriff Engstrom (a superbly slimy portrayal by Derek Crane) in the deep south for encouraging browbeaten black locals to become registered voters.
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Voter registration is deadly business in Joseph P. Mawra’s segregated South exploitation picture, Murder in Mississippi, starring Sheila Britt and Sam Stewart, not household names, but recognizable to anyone who has delved far enough into the depths of the 60s NYC exploitation scene.
