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“Mississippi Burning”: Fact versus Fiction In the movie “Mississippi Burning” we see a dramatized version of a non-fiction event that occurred in Mississippi in 1964. The event that occurred in June of 1964 was the slaying of three civil rights activists. The three men consisted of two white men, one who was Jewish, and one African American. The three young men were in Mississippi as volunteers to help and register African Americans to vote. Mississippi was a very segregated state at this time and lots of extremist were against the civil rights movement. There was little played out in the movie “Mississippi Burning” about the activists, but through out you hear a little more about them. But at the beginning you’re not sure why these guys are being killed. Right after the killings the FBI comes in and from then on it’s like t