Mississippi Burning Essay

Mississippi Burning presents the events that took place in the summer of 1964 in Mississippi, Philadelphia, when three civil rights workers were brutally beaten and shot to death. The film covers the investigation led by the FBI preceding the event conveying the struggle for African- American civil rights and what it had to take to receive justice. There is a high level of accuracy in the film, but like all Hollywood movies the film does have several dramatic additions or changes to capture and shake the audience. The strong racism and hatred towards African-Americans carried out by the Klu Klux Klan was accurately portrayed in this film showing how it greatly affected the southern way of life. The Klu Klux Klan were situated in the south …show more content…
In realty the information came from minor within the Klu Klux Klan. The search for the men became an extraordinarily difficult investigation and residents of the town would not reveal any information. A promise of $30,000 in reward money brought forward new information on the location of the bodies passed through a minor. Jerry Mitchell, an investigative reporter with Meridian's Clarion Ledger, reported in a 2010 story that highway patrolman Maynard King told Sullivan the location of the bodies. Mitchell also reported that the FBI's promise of a $30,000 reward was made after the FBI learned the location of the bodies and was part of a strategy to increase suspicion within the Klan. The case was finally open through one of the informants from within the Klan. The first information, from a Klan member allowed the FBI to focus on the more central figures. One Klan member who received a great deal of attention from John Proctor was James Jordan. Over the course of five increasingly rough interviews, Jordan came to see turning state's evidence as his best bet to avoid a long prison term. He was also promised $3500 and help in relocating himself and his family in return for his full