Mississippi Burning

• When was Mississippi Burning released?

  1988
• What is Mississippi Burning based on?

  The real events of the Freedom Summer of 1964
• Why were the men shot dead?

  For helping black voter registration
• What were the men's name who were shot dead?

  Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman
• Who does the plot focus on?

  Two FBI agents who uncover the KKK plot and serve justice to the town
• Who was a notable critic of the film?

  Coretta King who criticised the film as a distortion of history
• What did King want for the film?

  For it to focus on the heroism of black activists, rather than white FBI agents
• Who agreed with King?

  The Washington Post
• How were black characters depicted in the film?

  As passive, a contradiction to the many activists in the South at this time
• Where did the film place in the list of highest grossing films?

  33rd highest grossing movie in 1988
• What is a criticism of the roles of characters in the film?

  Black characters have minor or small roles with all the key characters being white
• How does the film twist reality?

  The FBI were nowhere near as committed to Civil Rights as portrayed by the film