Year 10 English - Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning is a 1988 crime drama film based on the investigation into the real-life murders of three civil rights workers in the U.S. state of Mississippi in 1964.

Background information

Ku Klux Klan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_klux_klan

FBI

http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/history/text.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation

Robert Kennedy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kennedy

Lyndon B Johnson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B_Johnson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B_Johnson#Civil_rights

Martin Luther King

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_luther_king

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

J Edgar Hoover

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover

http://www.fbi.gov/libref/directors/hoover.htm

Mississippi Freedom schools

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Schools

Civil rights movement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Movement#Civil_Rights_Movement_in_the_United_States

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html

http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/missippi.html

Segregation in the US

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761580651/segregation_in_the_united_states.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States

Mississippi (state)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi#History

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi#Education