Their efforts helped pave the way for the passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1965 and their murders were dramatized in the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning." Andy Goodman's fateful ...

Mississippi Burning, abbreviated to MIBURN. FBI What is known of the men’s final hours – at the hands of Mississippi law enforcement and local Ku Klux Klan members – is detailed in ...

The murders were dramatized in the 1988 Oscar-winning movie Mississippi Burning. "My heart was with them," said Harriet Rosenberg of Mahopac, who graduated from Pelham a year before Schwerner.

The town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, once a hotbed of KKK members ... They were hatemongers, extremists who were burning down churches and beating up congregants. ‘The feeling around [now ...

Think “Mississippi Burning” (1988), a highly entertaining movie that finds two of J. Edgar Hoover’s white FBI agents (Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe) coming to save the day after three civil ...

This comment was immortalized by the late, great Gene Hackman in his role as FBI Agent Rupert Anderson in the 1988 film “Mississippi Burning.” As an experienced operative, he was advocating ...

The British cinematographer, who won an Oscar for “Mississippi Burning,” and was BAFTA nominated for “The Truman Show,” will receive the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award.