Murder in Mississippi (1990)

Name: Murder in Mississippi
Director: Roger Young
Genre: TV Movie, Drama
Released: 1990-02-05
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Cast: Tom Hulce, Jennifer Grey, Blair Underwood, CCH Pounder

TV Movie Drama

Director: Roger Young

Cast: Tom Hulce, Jennifer Grey, Blair Underwood, CCH Pounder

Runtime96 min

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In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three Civil Rights workers who had traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registration. Examines the last three weeks in the lives of the slain activists.

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Murder in Mississippi is a 1990 American television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder during Freedom Summer in 1964. It starred Tom Hulce as Schwerner, Jennifer Grey as his wife Rita, Blair Underwood as Chaney, and Josh Charles as Goodman. Hulce received a nomination for Best Actor in a TV Miniseries at the 1990 Golden Globes. The film premiered on February 5, 1990, on NBC.