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In history class I participated in watching a movie called Mississippi Burning, it was quite eye opening. The scene that was first introduced to the film was confusing and very surprising, it was building burning. Yes, the movie is called Mississippi Burning, but I was not expecting for the movie to jump right into it. Most movies build slowing, not this one. It jumped to straight to the point and then some. Even though hollywood made this movie and it was all for show, it was still hard to watch a man get lynched. It was hard to see the black and white man get lynched, kind of gave me this sick to my stomach feeling. It was actually harder to see the black man get lynch because the son came back and had to bring his father down from the tree. I was sitting there thinking if that was my father and having to do that, having your dying father in your arms. I would not acted the same way that young boy. This movie was very hard to watch, it did not sit well with me. …show more content…

Three civil rights people/workers went missing in this town and one of the was black. The FBI got involved, they sent Agent Ward and Agent Anderson to investigate the situation. The local authority and the locals themselves refused to help, they believed they did nothing wrong. The Black Community was to afraid to say anything because they knew if they did they would most likely get lynched. The fact that the two agents had different outlooks on how to approach the situation made some conflict in the movie between the two agents. The situation becomes more violent because of the two agents going around trying to talk to the locals of the white and black communities. The wife of the sheriff finally has enough and gives up where the three bodies were burned. The bodies were found, the people involved got arrested, and some justice was

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