Neshoba [videorecording (DVD)] : the price of freedom / a Pro Bono and Pagano production ; written by Micki Dickoff ; produced and directed by Micki Dickoff & Tony Pagano.
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] :
Publisher:
First Run Features,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
1 videodisc (DVD) (87 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Bonus features: the short film "Get on board" ; courtroom footage. Edgar Ray Killen, interviewee.
Summary:
Tells the story of a Mississippi town still divided about the meaning of justice, 40 years after the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, an event dramatized in the Oscar-winning film Mississippi Burning. Although Klansmen bragged about what they did in 1964, no one was held accountable until 2005, when the State indicted preacher Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old notorious racist and mastermind of the murders. Through exclusive interviews with Killen, intimate interviews with the victims' families, and candid interviews with black and white Neshoba county citizens still struggling with their town's violent past, the film explores whether the prosecution of one unrepentant Klansman constitutes justice and whether healing and reconciliation are possible without telling the unvarnished truth--Container.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.