Movie Review: Mississippi Burning

This was a great film.  Excellent acting by William Defoe and Gene Hackman.  The story centers around the disappearance of 3 civil rights student activists in a small Mississippi town.  Two FBI agents are sent in to investigate and their investigation soon turns into a media spectacle as violence against the African-American community escalates.  The movie really captured the many sides of "the South" during 1964 in Mississippi.

It is a reminder of how bigoted and full of hate people were and how looking back it seems so silly and childish now.  Hopefully we can continue to move forward towards greater equality, because in the end we are all human.