In 1964, civil-rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner travelled to Mississippi to register black voters. While in Neshoba County, they were savagely murdered by a mob of local Klansmen and police officers. Though the state refused to bring murder charges against anyone for the homicides, the federal government convicted numerous men of civil rights violations, although each served just a few years in prison. Four decades later, with the community still bitterly divided along racial lines, a multi-ethnic community group came together with a mind to heal the pain and emotional scars still felt in the area because of these unsolved slayings. ...
Released:
2010
Rated:
NR
Length:
87 mins