Murder in Mississippi is the title of a 1964 Norman Rockwell painting depicting the same events. The painting is also known as Southern Justice.
Plot
In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three Civil Rights workers who had traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registration. The film examines the last three weeks in the lives of the slain activists.
In addition, Murder in Mississippi features an early role of Greg Kinnear, who was a television personality at the time; Kinnear appears at the end as a reporter - also named Greg Kinnear - covering the discovery of the remains of Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman.
Critical reception
Empire wrote, "A TV movie true story with a good grasp on the history and politics of the time. Hulce shows off a fine beatnik beard, his closest black colleague CCH Pounder is properly suspicious of the naive do-gooder to start with and the people they're up against are convincingly vicious throughout. Misleadingly titled (in no way is this a thriller and the murder is right at the end), but otherwise, quite effectively done."[1]