Mississippi Burning Movie

The Mississippi Burning movie is about how poorly the black were treated even after they were granted civil rights. It gets this point across by showing how even the police of Mississippi, the people who are supposed to be in charge of protecting people and their rights, are committing crimes and violating the rights of black people even long after they were supposed to be granted equal rights. The same police officers were also responsible for killing 3 civil rights activists, two of which were white men. It also shows several scenes of blacks getting their homes burnt down by KKK members, people being lynched, and also severely beaten regardless of their age or actions. I was genuinely suprised by how recent the events that took place in the movie actually were, I presumed most of the lynching and killing was done by the late 1800's but it actually persisted into the 1960's and perhaps even a bit later. Another thing that was fairly shocking to me was that it wasn't just black people being lynched and killed but the police and klan members in the movie were also lynching and beating white people as well. Klan members also burnt down churches, attacked members of the FBI when they were trying to investigate the case of the 3 missing persons, the civil rights activists that were killed earlier in the movie. More toward the end of the movie when it was showing which klan members were being arrested none of the sentences were very long, max of 10 years, and the Sheriff got acquitted so he didn't even have to go to jail and one individual who wasn't even involved in the killings hung himself for reasons they didn't quite specify in the movie.