In honor of the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, our class explored the history of this era through speeches, art, music, theater, film, historiography and guest speakers.
Period 2 watched the 1988 thriller, Mississippi Burning which is loosely based on the FBI investigation into the real-life murders of three civil rights workers in the state of Mississippi in 1964. Period 3 watched the classic 1967 crime drama, In the Heat of the Night starring the Sidney Poitier as a detective from Philadelphia who is assigned to a murder case in a racist Southern town. Period 6 watched Spike Lee’s 1992 Biographical Drama Malcolm X.
*After reading the articles and considering the questions attached to each film, post a comment reviewing the film.
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