[Treebeard]

How much of what was portrayed in the movie "Mississippi Burning" was fact and how much was agenda/propaganda? I remember watching the movie years ago, but never really asked anyone from there how they felt about it.

Personally, I think y'all got painted with a rather broad brush. I was in Senatobia, MS last summer and met some very good people there.

[msdrby]

You know, I asked my grandmother the same thing (I am but a spring chicken and was not born until after the '60s). She was livid about the movie. It portrayed the community as racist and vindictive.

It was as much a surprise to my family as it was to the rest of the townfolk. In my experience, I have never met anyone who supported what those men did. On the contrary, everyone I know scorns them for being ignorant biggots and for bringing a bad name upon their town.

[oyez]

"Mississippi Burning" was some facts mixed in with a lot of crap. The Clan was a small but intmidating organization. The American Nazi Party was probably bigger before the war.

A lot of people don't have any idea how much mistrust Southerners had for the Federal Government. That's a tradition that goes back to territorial times. After seeing troops being sent to Little Rock, Oxford and other places some people feared a second Reconstuction era. Naturaly, the public remained definsive, but that didn't deminish the quality of the people.