Neshoba : the price of freedom
Edition
Full screen version.
Languages
Closed-captioned.
Publication Information
[New York] : First Run Features, [2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
In 1964, a mob of Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers in the small Mississippi county of Neshoba--the infamous "Mississippi Burning" murders. The young men, two Jews from New York and an African-American from Mississippi, were in the Deep South helping to register African-American voters during what came to be known as Freedom Summer. Although the killers bragged about what they did, it took the state of Mississippi 40 years to indict the mastermind, Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old Baptist preacher and notorious racist.
Notes
Originally produced as a documentary in 2010.
Bonus materials: short film "Get on board" ; courtroom footage.
Subjects
- African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi.
- Civil rights workers > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
- Civil rights workers > Crimes against > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
- Mississippi > Race relations.
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
- Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964.
- Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964.
- Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964.
- Killen, Edgar Ray > Trials, litigation, etc.