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 ...

Gene Hackman starred in "Mississippi Burning," a film based on the 1964 murders of civil rights workers in Mississippi. The film was shot in various Mississippi locations, including Jackson ...

Throughout Mississippi and the south ... They were hatemongers, extremists who were burning down churches and beating up congregants. ‘The feeling around [now] feels like that sometimes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white.