Ghosts of Mississippi

This movie from the late 1980s was a true story about an investigation regarding the murder of a civil rights activist in the 1960s by Klansmen. A Klansmen (Earnest Gilbert) who witnessed this murder was too afraid of his fellow Klansmen to testify. The story is becoming news once again when it was recently found that he gave a tv interview before he died about the other Klansmen involved and specs of the murder. Of the names he mentioned, only one is still alive today after the case was re opened. Prosecutors (representing civil rights groups, and living relatives of the slain activist) are trying to get the court to allow them to show this interview as evidence that famed Klansmen James Seale (the only person mentioned by Gilbert that’s still living) killed the activists. What makes this interesting, I think, is the timing, it’s right after the large scale immigration rallies took place all over the US. It shows as a result of these deep racial tensions, the US is not a melting pot like some people like to believe, it’s a salad bowl.

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Interview transcript: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2826063&page=1