Movies

[ls317]

Mississippi Burning or Rosewood


Which of these two movies had a more profound effect on you???

[Archae]

1. Neither.

Because I haven't seen either one.

[jobycom]

2. Didn't see either. The ones that affected me were fictional

Heat of the Night, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Though the latter is in Alabama. Both showed the complexity of the issues a little more without being sympathetic to the wrong side.

[Justitia]

3. Mississippi Burning - still think of it often. Never underestimate the

dramatic punch of a movie to bring history to life.

So many people I have spoken to ONLY know about those events because of that movie.

[deutsey]

4. Mississippi Burning distorted a lot of the actual history

so I'm not a big fan of that movie, and I've never seen Rosewood, so I can't comment on it.

A good history of the Freedom Summer and the murders in Philadelphia, MS, is "We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi."

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/002520260X/qid=1119380357/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-0323774-7185755?v=glance&s=books

[SCDem]

7. I have another suggestion

Just finished it last night.... should have read it a long time ago. "The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black militant and the Life and Death of SNCC" by Cleveland Sellers with Robert Terrell http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/087805474X/qid=1119380969/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-5174694-9865542

I never really knew the deep differences and ideological and strategy struggles between the SCLC and SNCC. I took plenty of notes and plan on contacting the author (a former professor of mine) and describing to him what I see as some similarities in the struggle of the progressive movement withing the DNC.

[movie_girl99]

5. i would have to say both but i remember

walking out of the theater after seeing Rosewood and feeling so ashamed. Ashamed to be white among many black movie goers. I felt tremendous guilt at that moment for my ancestors who believed/believe in that racist shit.

[orion9941]

6. Mississippi Burning for me.

[Touchdown]

8. Ghosts of Mississippi

About the trial of Byron T LeBeckwith, who was convicted of killing civil rights activist Medgar(sp?) Evers.

Alec Baldwin, Whoopie Goldberg, and a very chilling James Woods.

The bedtime lullaby of "Dixieland" in the beginning and the middle of the film to his daughter frames the whole film.