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Ghosts of Mississippi

1996 film by Rob Reiner

Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American biographicalcourtroom drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, and James Woods. The film is based on the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers.

Released on December 20, 1996, the film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed just $13 million against its $36 million budget. At the 69th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Woods) and Best Makeup.^[2]^[3]

Plot

Medgar Evers was an African-American civil rights activist in Mississippi murdered on June 12, 1963. It was suspected that Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist, was the murderer. He had been tried twice in the 1960s and both trials ended in hung juries. Evers' widow Myrlie Evers had been trying to bring De La Beckwith to justice for over 25 years.

In 1989, emboldened by a newspaper article by Jerry Mitchell exposing jury tampering by the Missis

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For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story

Well done, taught me a lot

This was an African Heritage Network presentation on my local TV station, co-hosted by Ossie Davis, who wrote part of the screenplay.

I didn't know that much about Medgar Evers. The movie opened with events leading up to his murder. Then it went back to 1953, when Evers was selling insurance to blacks but also promoting the NAACP. A black sharecropper was accompanied by the white man he worked for as Evers visited, and the white man made it clear that the sharecropper was happy and Evers should stay away. The sharecropper could only agree, in an Uncle Tom kind of way.

Eventually, Evers moved on to become one of the top NAACP officials in Mississippi, with his dedicated wife his only employee. Evers campaigned for desegregation of schools, but those who supported him ended up having trouble getting work or even being victims of violence. Later, college students protested, and a white man was accused of murdering a black (which in the South of the 1950s often meant no consequences).

Howard Rollins

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Medgar Evers

Throughout his short life, Medgar Evers heroically spoke out against racism in the deeply divided South. He fought against cruel Jim Crow laws, protested segregation in education, and launched an investigation into the Emmett Till lynching. In addition to playing a role in the civil rights movement, he served as the NAACP's first field officer in Mississippi.

Returning from war

Evers began his journey as a civil rights activist when he and five friends were turned away from a local election at gunpoint. He had just returned from the Battle of Normandy in World War II and realized fighting for his country did not spare him from racism or give him equal rights.

After attending college at the historically black Alcorn State University in Mississippi and taking a job selling life insurance in the predominantly Black town of Mound Bayou, Evers became president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL). As head of the organization, Evers mounted a boycott of gas stations that barred Black people from using their restrooms, distributing bumper stickers with the