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A 5 page paper which examines the film “Mississippi Burning” and its relevance to the ideals of the nation in relationship to the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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1960s, two of whom were white and one who was black. The film, though clearly a fictional account of what took place, presented audiences with the tensions of the time
concerning equal rights and the prejudiced South. The following paper examines this particular film as it relates to the ideals of the founding fathers as presented in the Declaration of
Independence and the Bill of Rights. Mississippi Burning and Society "Mississippi Burning surveys the geography of racism, sheds light on the
dark night of the soul" as the movie investigates, through two FBI characters, the mystery of the deaths of three civil rights workers who essentially disappeared and turned up dead
(Mississippi Burning: The Movie). "The mystery, ostensibly about the murder of three young civil rights workers, is the inhumanity of man.... Mississippi Burning offers an appalling litany of white
supremacist atrocities in the guise of a buddy detective thriller" (Mississippi Burning: The Movie). In these respects we see that the film is not a true depiction of
what took place, but a film that illustrates the anger and hatred and prejudices that exist in society and how they clearly seemed to rear their ugly heads even in
the 20th century when most people would assume such problems were behind us. The producer of the film noted that the movie was simply intended to demonstrate how racism did
exist in the time frame, and how it was still prevalent at the time of the making of the film in the larger majority of the nations society (Mississippi Burning:
The Movie). As such, in this film the United States is depicted as a nation torn, a nation filled with prejudices and feelings of racism that have not been dealt
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