In the Heat of the Night is the mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewson in 1967 which based on John Ball’s 1965 novel of the same name. It tells the story of Virgil Tibbs, who were from Philadelphia and a black police detective, who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a racist small town in Mississippi. Phillip Colbert, a wealthy industrialist from Chicago was murdered. He was constructing a factory in Sparta and staying with his wife during construction. Police Officer Sam Wood during his motor patrol of Sparta found his body on a pavement at the front of a pathway entrance onto Main Street. Police Chief Bill Gillespie enters into the scene at a time where the body has been seen and he begins to investigate. A local mortician …show more content…
As the movie is a mystery-detective story, it shows socially bounded relations between whites and Africans-Americans, which clearly denotes the discrimination between Blacks and White folks at that time. The story tried to focus how the white people think about the black people. Yet, over 30 years of passing time have done small to minimize its impact, which tells the fact that racism is not eradicate fully till now and Black folks still face the problem in many ways. Civil rights Movements were started in the United States to eradicate the racial isolation and discrimination between African-Americans and white folks, which means to preserve the citizenship rights state in the constitution and federal law, to secure the legal rights as white, to provide the position in the high rank so they can get the equal benefit as the white people does. At the time of civil rights movements the leadership was African-Americans, and much of the political support and financial fund was provided by labor unions guided by Walter