MISISSIPPI BURNING MOVIE

TACTICS USED IN MISSISSIPPI BURNING

In the 1988 film Mississippi Burning , based on the investigation of three civil rights workers murdered during 1964 's Freedom Summer both the local Ku Klux Klan and the FBI rely on unorthodox tactics in to achieve their aims . The Klan consistently uses the same secretive , intimidating approach throughout the film , while the FBI - realizing that its conventional methods are not working - changes its approach to something ethically suspect but ultimately effective

Throughout the film , the Klan 's tactics remain consistent , entailing violence , brutality , and

intimidation . Set during Freedom Summer , a massive effort to register voters in rigidly-segregated rural Mississippi , the film opens with several Klan members chasing down a car carrying the three civil rights workers and then shooting them after a brief confrontation . For the rest of the film , they maintain a consistent approach . They continue to use violence arbitrarily for example , as the film opens , a black church burns to the ground , and after the three murders , they castrate one young man for little reason As the film progresses , they increasingly suspect various local African Americans of speaking to FBI agents investigating the civil rights workers ' disappearance , directly threatening local blacks who seek their rights and even lynching one outspoken preacher in front of his family (whose house and barn they also burn

The Klan also maintains its strict secrecy , though they subtly make their sentiments known through their vaguely-cloaked boasts and efforts to frighten or stymie the FBI investigators (For...