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The murder of the civil rights workers was known as the Mississippi Burning case, and it was at the heart of the FBI's effort to break the Klan.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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Matalin Thinks Palin is Brilliant -- Rollins and Gergen Think She's Toast (Heather/Crooks and Liars) 'Mississippi Burning' town gets black mayor (Sam Singal/msnbc. com)
Nuke Gingrich 2009
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Freedom "and watching the film" Mississippi Burning "influenced a hitsquad member to apply for amnesty for the murder of activist
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Now the town that was the subject for the movie, Mississippi Burning is Mississippi shining.
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Are we to see the antithesis of Mississippi Burning -- a small white Southern town struggling to maintain its cultural integrity and the threat of miscegenation with the growth of its African-American populace?
A Quick Clarification ... Rogers 2006
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If anybody saw Mississippi Burning, they were the Klan that was portrayed in that.
Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews 1993
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It's also familiar because Hollywood stories of racism usually skew to the white character leading the charge against injustice Mississippi Burning, Glory, Cry Freedom.
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Not since Mississippi Burning have racial and cultural stereotypes been substituted for characters so blatantly -- African Americans, Japanese, Chinese, Scottish, Samoans, Muslims,
videosaver.net videosaver 2010
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Not since Mississippi Burning have racial and cultural stereotypes been substituted for characters so blatantly -- African Americans, Japanese, Chinese, Scottish, Samoans, Muslims,
videosaver.net videosaver 2010
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Hotel Rwanda, The Lives Of Others, Read my lips, Downfall, Ghandi, Oliver or Mississippi Burning and compare it to one of these blockbusters in 3D.
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