Ku Klux Klan Sociology

All throughout the South the Ku Klux Klan was a prominent antagonist against the Negroes trying to survive. During the 1960’s, the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi and Alabama stirred a ton of controversy between the activists and the white supremacists. 1964 was an especially hard year for the movement, when two activists and one Negro were killed and dumped in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Because of the neglectful police, little investigation was done to find and convict the murderers. In Mississippi Burning, these horrible events and actions carried out by the KKK are graphically shown through death, destruction and profanity. Today, the racism and prejudice have calmed down a bit, but the events during this dark period should never be

As they investigate, there is hostility and backlash by the local KKK and corrupt police. The movie uses prolific cursing and racial slurs to induce the shock factor on the audience, making them feel sympathy with the Negroes in the film. Kids need to experience this to become sensitized to the horrors of the south during the 1960’s, and make them feel inspiration to stop any racism or prejudice that may occur around them. Kids often use racial slurs as a joke, like the “N” word, and need to be taught were that word came from and why it used to be used. Mississippi Burning uses this word often, and anyone who watches it will be awoken to the true meaning of that racial slur. The movie should be shown in schools to better society into not saying those things so willingly, as you never know who it will

My class is a good example of why Mississippi Burning should be shown in schools, because kids around me were also feeling sympathy for the Negroes, and after class there were some good conversations regarding the movie and how the actions of the KKK were so horrible. Mrs. Pell was a good example of the innocence of a white person who was not a supremacist. Although her husband was a member of the KKK, and a police deputy who did nothing to reprimand anti-Negro actions, she was nice to Agent Rupert Anderson, the FBI agent who often visited her in her house. She felt empathy for the rough times her husband and his friends were giving their neighboring Negroes, and tried to help the FBI. She is a good role model for any kid who watches the