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DVD

Spies of Mississippi

Call Number

  • DVD 323.1196 S7557 (POW)

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Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Publication Information

[Boston] : PBS Distribution, [2014]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

TV-PG.

Summary

Enter the chilling world of anti-civil rights espionage. The film reveals in shocking detail the state of Mississippi's effort to undermine the civil rights movement using a vast network of spies. Their identities will be shocking. Whites and Blacks spied for Old Dixie. And the Sovereignty Commission would stop at nothing, even murder, to retain the "Mississippi way of life."

Notes

Title from container.

"The campaign to stop freedom summer's civil rights movement of 1964"--Container.

Originally broadcast on PBS as an episode of Independent Lens in 2014.

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