Mississippi Burning — Kirk Mitchell

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Mississippi, 1964 - where murder wore a mask and justice was hideously violated

Three young civil rights workers - two whites and a black - were missing. A pair of F.B.I. agents came to find out what happened to them. One agent played by the rules. The other made his own. But it wasn't going to be easy for the law to beat the odds in a seething Southern town where old ways died hard and hate killed savagely...