RIP Andrew Goodman (1943-1964) James Chaney (1943-1964) and Michael Schwerner (1939-1964)

Thank you for creating this film. Americans need to face our history.

Not too much has changed in Mississippi.

And it's still like that today

Keep up the good work, PBS. High-quality stuff, educational stuff.

This is why Mississippi is cursed to this day.

This is disturbing and still relevant today.

So sad that these brave young men had to die. Everyone should know this story.

Nobody will remember the faceless white sheets. Everybody remembers the civil rights activists for what they were and are: Heroes! I´ll try my best to be a little bit more like you were.

R.I.P. Greg Scarpa

And when u have law enforcement as part of the violence there's no one to protect u.Sound Familiar?

So much that didn't make the papers and TV in Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and Alabama. In many ways, nothing has really changed. The south is cold blooded to this day. But never again.

THE KLAN DON'T PLAY!!!!!!

Makes me sad. But what really is the crazy thing, is that it helps me , although hurts me feelings and makes me cry about it. I hate stuff like this, and I can't stand the hate. I was not made like that. I was raised in the south, but I never was racist, although most of my relatives were. They didn't have to go through what I went through when we moved there, so I know what it was like. Being from wv i was treated bad. Teenagers tried to kill me my first day there I was 4 and always was smaller than other kids my age. So, to me I already knew what minorities go through before I even knew about all that stuff back in the day, slavery and civil rights attacks. So any time we had new kids that couldn't speak English, black, or whatever the case may had been that they were isolated and hard to make friends for themselves, I was their friend. And I prioritized their friendship over anything else. Because deep down I was alone and didn't feel like I belonged neither. Even when I lived in low income neighborhoods, the black kids and Mexican kids and all the kids except the white kids would jump me and had I not learned to defend myself at such a younger age, from being jumped on because I was from wv by other white kids...I wouldn't have survived. It's funny how, it started out, white kids giving me hell because where I was from and born. And then later on in life, the color of my skin was the problem. There is hate no matter where you go for whatever reason. It's sickening and sad. And it usually happens the worst of it to those of us that live to love others, and serve through love. I guess, that hate sniffs out my kind and will not tolerate us making ripples of positivity and love. That's the only thing I could ever think of as to an explanation. Not just for myself for closure, but when I hear or read stories like this it cripples me, from the inside out. It just breaks my heart. So completely and deeply.

Another viewing that Neshoba County, Mississippi needs to Self Reflect on! What an atrocious painful event where I grew up! I was also a victim and almost banished from Neshoba County for speaking out about modern day racism and Rascist groups in Neshoba County!

This was excellent. Is there a longer version of this? I was always fascinated with the Mississippi Burning case.

So sad where the hate come from

I had read that the same day the three Civil Rights workers went missing, a book written by a History teacher was released.Its title was:Mississippi, the closed society.According to the book, the State of Mississippi was always in a state of spiritual secession from the Union.This book was written in 1964 and i do not know whether Mississippi remains the place James Silver described in the book mentioned above.

Thank you for this. I don't live in the USA so a lot of its history is up to me to find out and learn about since the darker aspects are glossed over in a lot of books or docos. People who delve deep into this stuff, I don't doubt at a cost to their own psyche, so that we can learn are doing great work. Thank you again.

Excellent!

A beautiful and tragic piece. I wonder how the producers were put on to the story? Was there an article or book or did one of the professors pitch the idea?

You don't fight roaches with hugs and kisses, you stomp them flat!

12:40 man sitting at the left is my uncle Ernest Gilbert “Informant X”

While alot of those monsters got off in this realm....they are answering to a higher authority....and they will burn forever.

Don't let them take are right to vote , after everything we have been through to get it !!!

Why didn't they name all originally charged, especially the two surviving?

I'm Black and I truly believe that a Black informant gave the Klan information on these men. How would they knew all of the intricate details: where they were, how did they know Mike Shwerner was called goatee?

Wonder were the state police officers ever brought to justice. It's frightening how involved Government was in the killings.

Emmet Till, murdered, Money Mississippi. Medgar Evers, murdered, Jackson Mississippi. James Chaney, murdered Philidelphia Mississippi, Andrew Goodman, murdered, Philadelphia Mississippi. Michael Schwerner murdered, Philidelphia Mississippi. Although not in Mississippi, Robertson, Mcnair, Collins and Westley, four little girls murdered at the 16th street Baptist church bombing 1963. R.I.P. we will never forget.

Watch Mississippi Burning. A detailed film

It's two sets of law in America but it trying to get better so sad

Facts matter, history matters! Why other comments are porn!!

Help me UNDERSTAND, they ( FBI) can disband the Black Panthers, but the KKK has/ had free reign to do whatever they wanted to do in the BLACK community.

When God is not enough.

This video would be considered CRT according to republicans

I was born and raised in Memphis Tennessee and the racist still exists and I am a white man

So ironic that Mississippi/the south named their city Philadelphia and perverted everything about it William Penn had established it for, Philos Delphos, brotherly love? Not in the south

I am white I got black friend that not right what they did

Maureen Lady Day pearls Jane like lady Jane grey socialite is on plank ledges to see by savannah Georgia for sharing

Hell Yeah!!!

IDK Why the narrator is saying "SherrifS" It was one Sheriff the rest are deputies in Neshoba county. Other counties were not involved and didn't collude with the Klan. It was actually a MISS State trooper that gave the FBI the info, and other local agencies.

Closed chapter of history...

Those 2 still living are spending their life waiting for their front door to be kicked down by the FBI. What a life> No Thanks!

Now the races are swapped.

Trailers got killed good job Mississippi

They should have minded their own business

We have less crime in Mississippi because we have guns and ropes lol

They looked fit trouble and found it, no loss.

burning mississippi

I am so glad that this time is over and civil rights have come to the oppressed people of Mississippi. Its better now. There's still some problems to overcome. Jackson MS is always in the top 10 murder capitols of the USA. But we do have a black mayor and black police chief and black hinds county sheriff. But we need more time. Although we do have all black school superintendents and black teachers , that is helping us. And we are doing better. But there's still more murders per 100,000 population than even Chicago. The black on black murders since 1980 has eclipsed all lynchings, and pre civil rights murders in Mississippi by thousands of times over. But overall, its a better time now than it was. But if we could just stop all the killing among ourselves it could feel safer. I'm hoping that we could have some July 4th BBQ's and maybe some birthday parties without the whole house and neighborhood getting shot up to hell and all our friends getting shot. But we just needs some more time. It'll work out for better. Other parts of the state are doing well though. But Grenada and Columbus are always in the news with folks getting shot for just no reason. Just fight'n over girlfriend, money and drugs. This has to stop cause these towns are becoming so dangerous and folks dying every week. But at least its now like it was in the freedom summer of 1964. That was bad.. They killed those boys. Worst thing ever. But we just needs some more time and everythings gone be all right.