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Sunday, January 25, 2015
Mississippi Burning Background
In the movie that we recently watched, Inequality for All, Rob Reich talked about his protector when he was growing up. He spoke of how his friend Michael Schwerner was one of three American civil rights workers that were killed while helping register African Americans to vote. The three were shot by members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan on June 26th, 1964. The film Mississippi Burning that we will be watching this upcoming week was loosely based on the FBI investigation of this event. It follows two FBI agents investigating the disappearance and murders of these three men. The film brings awareness to a sensitive topic but I believe that it will allow our classmates to see the difficulties faced by both African Americans and civil rights activists in the south at the time and I am interested to learn more of the events that Reich spoke of in his documentary. This movie will open our eyes to the long lasting issues of inequality and racism.
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I agree with the connection being made here. Both movies are centered around equality. Although, Inequality for All focuses more on the economic factors of equality and Mississippi Burning focuses on the racial and social factors, they both go hand in hand. Not just because Rob Reich knew one of the victims that were murdered personally, but also because both movies were exposing the problems us Americans face in our communities and our country as a whole. Mississippi Burning did support a lot of Reich's statements in his documentary and further explained his theories and reasons behind why America struggles with the idea of equality.
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