Analysis Of Ghost Of Mississippi

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The 1996 American drama film Ghosts of Mississippi was directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, and James Woods. The plot of the movie is based on the true story of the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, the white supremacist - a racist against the blacks - was accused of the 1963 murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. Medgar Evers was a black civil rights activist in Mississippi who was murdered by an “assassin” on June 12, 1963. It was suspected that Byron De La Beckwith, the white supremacist, was the murderer. He had been tried twice and both trials ended in a victory for him. In 1989, Evers' widow Myrlie, who had been trying to bring De La Beckwith to justice and put him in prison for over 25 years, believed

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