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Murder in Mississippi was a 1990 television movie
Television movie

A television movie is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network....
 which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights
Civil rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights ensuring things such as the protection of peoples' physical integrity; procedural fairness in law; protection from discrimination based on sexism, religious intolerance, Racism, Homophobia, etc; individual freedom of freedom of belief, freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom...
 activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner
Michael Schwerner

Michael Henry Schwerner , was one of three Congress of Racial Equality field workers killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by the Ku Klux Klan in response to their civil rights work, which included promoting registration to vote among Mississippi African Americans....
, Andrew Goodman
Andrew Goodman

Andrew Goodman was one of three United States American Civil Rights Movement activists who were murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer in 1964 by members of the Ku Klux Klan....
 and James Chaney
James Chaney

James Earl "J.E." Chaney was one of three United States civil rights workers who was murdered during Freedom Summer by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi....
, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder in the summer of 1964
Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to voter registration as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters....
. It starred Tom Hulce
Tom Hulce

Thomas Edward Hulce is an United States Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor, and Tony Award-winning producer....
 as Schwerner, Jennifer Grey
Jennifer Grey

Jennifer Grey is a Golden Globe nominated United States actor, best known for playing Frances "Baby" Houseman in the 1987 hit film Dirty Dancing and Jeanie Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off....
 as his wife Rita, Blair Underwood
Blair Underwood

'Blair Underwood' is an United States television and film actor. He is perhaps best known as headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins from the NBC legal drama L.A....
 as Chaney, and Josh Charles
Josh Charles

Joshua Aaron Charles is an United States stage, film and television actor....
 as Goodman.

As a historical docudrama
Docudrama

A docudrama is a dramatization of actual historical events. As a neologism, the term is often confused with docufiction....
, Murder in Mississippi precedes the storylines of both 1975's Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan is a 1975 two-part television movie, which dramatised the events following the 1964 disappearance and murder of three Civil Rights workers in Mississippi....
 and 1988's Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning is a 1988 crime drama film based on the FBI investigation into the real-life Mississippi civil rights workers murders in the U.S....
.








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Murder in Mississippi was a 1990 television movie
Television movie

A television movie is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network....
 which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights
Civil rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights ensuring things such as the protection of peoples' physical integrity; procedural fairness in law; protection from discrimination based on sexism, religious intolerance, Racism, Homophobia, etc; individual freedom of freedom of belief, freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom...
 activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner
Michael Schwerner

Michael Henry Schwerner , was one of three Congress of Racial Equality field workers killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by the Ku Klux Klan in response to their civil rights work, which included promoting registration to vote among Mississippi African Americans....
, Andrew Goodman
Andrew Goodman

Andrew Goodman was one of three United States American Civil Rights Movement activists who were murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer in 1964 by members of the Ku Klux Klan....
 and James Chaney
James Chaney

James Earl "J.E." Chaney was one of three United States civil rights workers who was murdered during Freedom Summer by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi....
, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder in the summer of 1964
Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer was a campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to voter registration as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which up to that time had almost totally excluded black voters....
. It starred Tom Hulce
Tom Hulce

Thomas Edward Hulce is an United States Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor, and Tony Award-winning producer....
 as Schwerner, Jennifer Grey
Jennifer Grey

Jennifer Grey is a Golden Globe nominated United States actor, best known for playing Frances "Baby" Houseman in the 1987 hit film Dirty Dancing and Jeanie Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off....
 as his wife Rita, Blair Underwood
Blair Underwood

'Blair Underwood' is an United States television and film actor. He is perhaps best known as headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins from the NBC legal drama L.A....
 as Chaney, and Josh Charles
Josh Charles

Joshua Aaron Charles is an United States stage, film and television actor....
 as Goodman.

As a historical docudrama
Docudrama

A docudrama is a dramatization of actual historical events. As a neologism, the term is often confused with docufiction....
, Murder in Mississippi precedes the storylines of both 1975's Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan is a 1975 two-part television movie, which dramatised the events following the 1964 disappearance and murder of three Civil Rights workers in Mississippi....
 and 1988's Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning is a 1988 crime drama film based on the FBI investigation into the real-life Mississippi civil rights workers murders in the U.S....
.

Selected cast

  • Tom Hulce
    Tom Hulce

    Thomas Edward Hulce is an United States Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor, and Tony Award-winning producer....
     as Mickey Schwerner
  • Blair Underwood
    Blair Underwood

    'Blair Underwood' is an United States television and film actor. He is perhaps best known as headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins from the NBC legal drama L.A....
     as James Chaney
  • Jennifer Grey
    Jennifer Grey

    Jennifer Grey is a Golden Globe nominated United States actor, best known for playing Frances "Baby" Houseman in the 1987 hit film Dirty Dancing and Jeanie Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off....
     as Rita Schwerner
  • Josh Charles
    Josh Charles

    Joshua Aaron Charles is an United States stage, film and television actor....
     as Andrew Goodman
  • CCH Pounder
    CCH Pounder

    Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder is a three-time Primetime Emmy Award-nominated Guyanese-United States film and television actress. She is usually billed as CCH Pounder ....
     as Fannie Lee Chaney
  • Walton Goggins
    Walton Goggins

    Walton Sanders Goggins, Jr. is an American actor. He was a regular on the FX Networks series The Shield, portraying "Detective Shane Vendrell"....
     as Lyle


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