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Murder in Mississippi
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Wikipedia article
'Murder in Mississippi' is a 1990 television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder during Freedom Summer in 1964. It starred Tom Hulce as Schwerner, Jennifer Grey as his wife Rita, Blair Underwood as Chaney, and Josh Charles as Goodman. Hulce received a nomination for Best Actor in a TV Miniseries at the 1990 Golden Globes.
As a historical docudrama, 'Murder in Mississippi' precedes the storylines of both 1975's 'Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan' and 1988's 'Mississippi Burning'.
'Murder in Mississippi' is the title of a 1964 Norman Rockwell painting depicting the same events. The painting is also known as 'Southern Justice'.
Plot
Cast
*Tom Hulce as Michael Schwerner
*Blair Underwood as James Chaney
*Jennifer Grey as Rita Schwerner
*Josh Charles as Andrew Goodman
*CCH Pounder as Fannie Lee Chaney
*Andre Braugher as Dennis
*Walton Goggins as Lyle
*Royce D. Applegate as Deputy Winter (based on Cecil Price)
*Scott Lawrence as Matt Suarez
*John Dennis Johnston as Hatchet-Faced Man
In addition, 'Murder in Mississippi' features an early role of Greg Kinnear, who was a television personality at the time; Kinnear appears at the end as a reporter - also named Greg Kinnear - covering the discovery of the remains of Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman.
See also
* Civil rights movement in popular culture
* 'Neshoba' (2010 documentary film)
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