Mississippi Justice | American Experience | PBS

[@StephenLuke]

RIP Andrew Goodman (1943-1964) James Chaney (1943-1964) and Michael Schwerner (1939-1964)

[@deloreswillis9224]

Amen .. GOD BLESS 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@StephenLuke]

@@deloreswillis9224 They will be missed. 😢💔

[@repATL11]

Thank you for creating this film. Americans need to face our history.

[@Hiker_Nature_009]

Americans never really faced the ugly part of their history (slavery, racism, KKK). Defeated racist south should have been under direct military control, at least for the next 40-50 years just like defeated Nazi Germany was after 1945. That would have prevent the rise of KKK just like very much prevented rise of the neonazis in post war Germany.

[@stephenpope578]

Those boys should have minded their business

[@stephenwright8824]

@@Hiker_Nature_009 We tried that: ever hear of Reconstruction? It didn't work then (1865-77) and it wouldn't work now.

[@Hiker_Nature_009]

@@stephenwright8824 yes I've heard about "Reconstruction period". Of course it's hard to reset evil ideology after the war is done, but it's worth of every effort. Germans had courage and will to do it after 1945. From my european point of view I think that the main problem in USA is absence of "strong" centralized government to do some profound positive reforms for the wider population (universal education, universal healthcare, teaching in public schools historical/scientific facts not some "alternative facts", evolution by natural selection, instead of intelligent design). Too much of american "individualism" and too much of decentralization and weakening of central government leads into some king of chaos, anarchy and wrongful "selfrule" like the "Wild West chapter 2". It's no wonder that kind of USA is plagued with gun violence, police brutality, racial tensions and riots, weak healthcare, and deep divide between democrats and republicans like never before in history. USA is on it's own crossroads, perhaps the most important in it's +200 years long history. All american people deserve better and less violent future.

[@jeffreyhershey5754]

@@Hiker_Nature_009 that's why america needs a president like Donald John Trump....

[@lisajackson1114]

And it's still like that today

[@JohnDavis-yz9nq]

Not really. Mississippi has changed a lot since those days.

[@c.costanza1145]

@@JohnDavis-yz9nq BS

[@JohnDavis-yz9nq]

@@c.costanza1145 blacks are treated better now than they ever have been in Mississippi. It ain’t like the old days of the sixties.

[@Yazelflechv4]

@@JohnDavis-yz9nq "Better then they ever have been in Mississippi" isn't saying much mate lol.

[@JohnDavis-yz9nq]

@@Yazelflechv4 yeh I’m grabbing on to what you are saying. What I meant was that racism is not there nowadays. The klu klux Klan are gone. Mississippi is a poor state. I’ve traveled in Mississippi and have taken the time to get to know the local people and the whites do not seem to have racial views towards the blacks. If the blacks were looked down upon I would have seen it.

[@hansr.9037]

Nobody will remember the faceless white sheets. Everybody remembers the civil rights activists for what they were and are: Heroes! I´ll try my best to be a little bit more like you were.

[@lucavescovi4256]

Keep up the good work, PBS. High-quality stuff, educational stuff.

[@AmericanExperiencePBS]

Much appreciated!

[@deloreswillis9224]

♥️

[@darkwaters1010]

​@@AmericanExperiencePBS why didn't you name all those originally charged, especially the two surviving killers?

[@janamonji]

So sad that these brave young men had to die. Everyone should know this story.

[@stephenpope578]

They were trouble makers

[@Friendomations]

@@stephenpope578 no u

[@Gwenethism]

Wow

[@justatypicalguy4417]

@@stephenpope578 helping to allow people to vote which is a right in this country is not troublemaking. And even if they were gang murder is an extreme over reaction to “troublemaking”

[@stephenpope578]

@@justatypicalguy4417 Well they never helped anyone else

[@truthjunkie63]

This is why Mississippi is cursed to this day.

[@putler965]

@@dropitbuster Poverty and backwardness.

[@putler965]

@@dropitbuster Well apparently most of your state hasn't "tried to do better." Mississippi is the poorest state in the country and has been the poorest state in the country for a long time. And given your educational levels, backward as well.

[@putler965]

@@dropitbuster Actually I can blame Mississippi. It has a backward culture, and that is what causes its backwardness and poverty. But then the South has always lagged behind on just about every relevant metric, just like it lagged behind when it came to civil rights. Mississippi is the poorest and least educated state in the country. Just facts.

[@Hiker_Nature_009]

@@dropitbuster America managed to defeat Nazis in Germany in 1945 (with other allies). Sady it failed to really defeat their own Nazis back home in 1865. In post war Germany (after 1945) it was unimaginable to kill a jew a got away with it, but sady even 100 years after defeat of the racist South, it was still managable to kill black person and got away with it. Shame on you ''american democracy''.

[@Hiker_Nature_009]

@@dropitbuster True, but it was "unofficial policy" of the southern states (Jim Crow law) until the civil right movement came to be.

[@Robert-nb6cc]

And when u have law enforcement as part of the violence there's no one to protect u.Sound Familiar?

[@power966]

Not too much has changed in Mississippi.

[@notthatguypal14]

Yes it has. Stop playing the victim game just like democrats

[@GAURAV25855ify]

When it comes economy and culture dirt poor state looks like a trailor park and a hunting ground.

[@anibalcesarnishizk2205]

I had read that the same day the three Civil Rights workers went missing, a book written by a History teacher was released.Its title was:Mississippi, the closed society.According to the book, the State of Mississippi was always in a state of spiritual secession from the Union.This book was written in 1964 and i do not know whether Mississippi remains the place James Silver described in the book mentioned above.

[@thewiseone5879]

So much that didn't make the papers and TV in Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and Alabama. In many ways, nothing has really changed. The south is cold blooded to this day. But never again.

[@gregpettis1113]

The only thing that's changed is the white man is treated like a n

[@GAURAV25855ify]

Texas isnt so bad only 9nterior parts Alabama arkansas louisiana are questionsble.especially mississippi and Indiana is.the Alabama of the north

[@GAURAV25855ify]

Sure it did it on television.and papers bwck then 3 decades later mississippi burningnwas made on it

[@1cugine359]

R.I.P. Greg Scarpa

[@britneyspears1932]

THE KLAN DON'T PLAY!!!!!!

[@fiqirtesfa5297]

No disrespect, but I can't tell if you're rooting for the KKK or not 😂.

[@kevinbailey3447]

Another viewing that Neshoba County, Mississippi needs to Self Reflect on! What an atrocious painful event where I grew up! I was also a victim and almost banished from Neshoba County for speaking out about modern day racism and Rascist groups in Neshoba County!

[@JussHaten11]

This is disturbing and still relevant today.

[@julianG1212]

Yes and now the races are swapped.

[@deloreswillis9224]

Yessssss absolutely!!!!!!!!!!

[@GAURAV25855ify]

Does stuff like still happens in Mississippi people going missing

[@WillBlindYouWithLight]

Makes me sad. But what really is the crazy thing, is that it helps me , although hurts me feelings and makes me cry about it. I hate stuff like this, and I can't stand the hate. I was not made like that. I was raised in the south, but I never was racist, although most of my relatives were. They didn't have to go through what I went through when we moved there, so I know what it was like. Being from wv i was treated bad. Teenagers tried to kill me my first day there I was 4 and always was smaller than other kids my age. So, to me I already knew what minorities go through before I even knew about all that stuff back in the day, slavery and civil rights attacks. So any time we had new kids that couldn't speak English, black, or whatever the case may had been that they were isolated and hard to make friends for themselves, I was their friend. And I prioritized their friendship over anything else. Because deep down I was alone and didn't feel like I belonged neither. Even when I lived in low income neighborhoods, the black kids and Mexican kids and all the kids except the white kids would jump me and had I not learned to defend myself at such a younger age, from being jumped on because I was from wv by other white kids...I wouldn't have survived. It's funny how, it started out, white kids giving me hell because where I was from and born. And then later on in life, the color of my skin was the problem. There is hate no matter where you go for whatever reason. It's sickening and sad. And it usually happens the worst of it to those of us that live to love others, and serve through love. I guess, that hate sniffs out my kind and will not tolerate us making ripples of positivity and love. That's the only thing I could ever think of as to an explanation. Not just for myself for closure, but when I hear or read stories like this it cripples me, from the inside out. It just breaks my heart. So completely and deeply.

[@NGLaw56]

Let’s not forget, a lot of the grandchildren of these men are still leadership in Mississippi.

[@mrkrinkle72]

You don't fight roaches with hugs and kisses, you stomp them flat!

[@robertweingartner2055]

This was excellent. Is there a longer version of this? I was always fascinated with the Mississippi Burning case.

[@Lingchow1]

No. Only liberal propaganda

[@jazzylew5479]

Emmet Till, murdered, Money Mississippi. Medgar Evers, murdered, Jackson Mississippi. James Chaney, murdered Philidelphia Mississippi, Andrew Goodman, murdered, Philadelphia Mississippi. Michael Schwerner murdered, Philidelphia Mississippi. Although not in Mississippi, Robertson, Mcnair, Collins and Westley, four little girls murdered at the 16th street Baptist church bombing 1963. R.I.P. we will never forget.

[@asha4736]

Thank you for this. I don't live in the USA so a lot of its history is up to me to find out and learn about since the darker aspects are glossed over in a lot of books or docos. People who delve deep into this stuff, I don't doubt at a cost to their own psyche, so that we can learn are doing great work. Thank you again.

[@kurger100]

This is history. Now US is the least racist nation on earth

[@asha4736]

@@kurger100 Well that is just an absolute lie.

[@kurger100]

@@asha4736 USA is the least racist place on earth... This is the country any minority can reach the highest office... and reach places where minorities in Europe cannot even imagine... Minorities in Europe are still very second class citizens... people try to migrate in millions because this is the greatest nation on earth.... you are not an american so your opinion means bull poop to us... I'm a citizen of the greatest nation in earth and you are not... I understand your envy but get yourself educated first

[@asha4736]

@@kurger100 I'm from New Zealand which is ahead of you in every single way

[@kurger100]

@@asha4736 lol... I'm a citizen of the greatest and most powerful nation on earth and you are from a place where a leftist feminist PM had made citizens her subjects and locking them up for Covid tyranny... If our government attempted such we will get our guns,,, No sunshine, USA is the greatest nation on earth, btw if you come here you will be able to marry an American and become a citizen of this great nation so that you would not be Jecinda Arden's subject..

[@nashmitchell3070]

I'm Black and I truly believe that a Black informant gave the Klan information on these men. How would they knew all of the intricate details: where they were, how did they know Mike Shwerner was called goatee?

[@GAURAV25855ify]

Wrong it wasnt them they knew because most of mississippi had wooden areas with small.towns connected with.each other

[@pattencycling]

So sad where the hate come from

[@raymanning3659]

While alot of those monsters got off in this realm....they are answering to a higher authority....and they will burn forever.

[@mdvashro]

A beautiful and tragic piece. I wonder how the producers were put on to the story? Was there an article or book or did one of the professors pitch the idea?

[@tyrlant2189]

Basically they just pick what helps them inflame racial tensions best

[@wchandler2010]

@@tyrlant2189 what exactly in this is inflaming racial tension? Are you against all history being told or just history that makes any part of America look bad? I assume you are okay with us talking about how we defeated the British for our independence or how we defeated the Nazis in 1940s but you're not okay with us talking about civil rights workers being murdered in Mississippi for the egregious crime of registering black people to vote?

[@stephenwright8824]

Mark: Probably it was the movie _Mississippi Burning._ After that, countless more American people had a better idea what happened. (The movie was released in 1988).)

[@TheMrgoodmanners]

The history they dont want to teach

[@francynelane6524]

Don't let them take are right to vote , after everything we have been through to get it !!!

[@gregpettis1113]

Nobody wants to take away your right to vote

[@francynelane6524]

@@gregpettis1113 except the Republicans

[@gulfportflamefighter4545]

🙄🙄🙄

[@francynelane6524]

@@gulfportflamefighter4545 🌊🌊🌊

[@hansr.9037]

what's gerrymandering and its purpose?

[@lutherblount319]

12:40 man sitting at the left is my uncle Ernest Gilbert “Informant X”

[@Angela-ot7es]

Excellent!

[@AmericanExperiencePBS]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@ebonaparte3853]

12:50 Why did he say that at a Klan rally?

[@travismaxwell9115]

Help me UNDERSTAND, they ( FBI) can disband the Black Panthers, but the KKK has/ had free reign to do whatever they wanted to do in the BLACK community.

[@forestfire1232]

No

[@stephenwright8824]

@@forestfire1232 Didn't the Southern Poverty Law Center declare the Klan dead a few years ago? Or at least no longer a threat to American society and law?

[@gregpettis1113]

@@stephenwright8824 the Klang hasn't been relevant since the sixties

[@mikealvord55]

Because maybe there were 50 times the clansmen than black panthers!

[@alex4k486]

@@mikealvord55 it’s because there bosses are in the kkk

[@trollgeneral6624]

This video would be considered CRT according to republicans

[@mikealvord55]

No it wouldn’t . Don’t be a clueless hack.

[@trollgeneral6624]

@@mikealvord55 yes it would

[@darkwaters1010]

Why didn't they name all originally charged, especially the two surviving?

[@indian2003]

How can America claim to be the worlds oldest democracy? Lynching was legal until the 40s and 85% voted against the anti-lynching legislation in 1937. Blacks needed police protection just to be able to vote into the 60s. What democracy is that?

[@taratabor]

What was the name of the spy and what position did they how to tip off the sheriff, that is the real store and one that hasn’t been told.

[@TedH.]

Cecil Price fell off a piece of equipment after being paroled and subsequently died in 2001.

[@dougclem7711]

And in 2024, it seems so relevant. We have not traveled far from that earthen dam.

[@chavezdingdong3666]

Watch Mississippi Burning. A detailed film

[@nataliep.9047]

chave Ding Dong; No, don't . The movie is fictionalized. Watch "The True Story Of Mississippi Burning ; The FBI Files".

[@larryburks592]

That film was entertaining at best. Loosely fictionalized account. Check out some of the interviews from Eyes on the Prize

[@Mike-01234]

Wonder were the state police officers ever brought to justice. It's frightening how involved Government was in the killings.

[@louiserose2609]

Facts matter, history matters! Why other comments are porn!!

[@mazieg7072]

Just cretins with no life.

[@forestfire1232]

@@mazieg7072 bots

[@ikejackson8676]

It's two sets of law in America but it trying to get better so sad

[@billygundum]

When God is not enough.

[@kevinjames734]

Speeding? Already lied!

[@kylew.4896]

So ironic that Mississippi/the south named their city Philadelphia and perverted everything about it William Penn had established it for, Philos Delphos, brotherly love? Not in the south

[@sirob1193]

IDK Why the narrator is saying "SherrifS" It was one Sheriff the rest are deputies in Neshoba county. Other counties were not involved and didn't collude with the Klan. It was actually a MISS State trooper that gave the FBI the info, and other local agencies.

[@arthurward6997]

A spy in the Black community tipped the police off.

[@Muskogee]

Do you understand what the Klan did to black people? They would threaten, drag black people from there homes, burn their homes, beat them and rape black kids, women in front of fathers, husband's, families and the police would do it as well. Nothing was done about it. Stop saying nonsense.

[@ThomasJones-ul6xp]

I am white I got black friend that not right what they did

[@Joseph-fw6xx]

It's best to mind your own business

[@dontcare9689]

Those 2 still living are spending their life waiting for their front door to be kicked down by the FBI. What a life> No Thanks!

[@gregpettis1113]

I doubt it

[@memphismemphis462]

I was born and raised in Memphis Tennessee and the racist still exists and I am a white man

[@PurpleDemonZombie]

Your a jew 😂

[@GAURAV25855ify]

In memphis not so much like mississippi

[@John-eg3gy]

ALBERT PUJOLS 7O3 HOMERUNS

[@maureenoneill2847]

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[@Libyan_Tripoli]

Amerikkka

[@garyjenkins2500]

MAGA?

[@davidjohnson4298]

We have less crime in Mississippi because we have guns and ropes lol

[@kaindashoota2250]

Something a 🤡would say

[@GAURAV25855ify]

What are the ropes for as far less crime probsbily not since Jackson mississippi has the higest crime rspre per capita in the state withnallt of problems and probsbily in.plsces like south.haven.and bilioxi

[@debramiller7127]

Hell Yeah!!!

[@julianG1212]

Now the races are swapped.

[@ramonareyes3009]

Closed chapter of history...

[@ruppertale3319]

Not closed at all. The Supreme Court gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and election ID laws are being adopted across the South. That means long delays for black voters while white GOP/Trump goons scrutinize IDs and question signatures. Georgia's law is a good example. Since it passed, EVERY black election board member in the state has been replaced by a white person. Jim Crow 2.0 is alive and well.

[@JussHaten11]

@@ruppertale3319 exactly!!!

[@gregpettis1113]

@@ruppertale3319 democrats are against voter ID laws because it makes it harder to cheat.

[@michaeldry7967]

@@ruppertale3319 how does a grown ass adult not have an ID?

[@joechilds6933]

They should have minded their own business

[@dannyleo4791]

The South taught em a lesson

[@mikepickwick8271]

Voting rights and lynchings are every American's business. You are pathetic.

[@rsattahip]

They looked fit trouble and found it, no loss.

[@ThomasJones-ul6xp]

Yea I white and that not right what they did bro I have black friends not right

[@MormonHoldem]

Helping people exercise their democratic right to vote is looking for trouble?

[@kaindashoota2250]

Something a 🤡would say

[@Larry-zv8li]

@@MormonHoldem you're talking to inbred folks 😂

[@jeffchesser4024]

Don't go where you aren't wanted

[@ianguill803]

burning mississippi

[@VisoMoraine]

I am so glad that this time is over and civil rights have come to the oppressed people of Mississippi. Its better now. There's still some problems to overcome. Jackson MS is always in the top 10 murder capitols of the USA. But we do have a black mayor and black police chief and black hinds county sheriff. But we need more time. Although we do have all black school superintendents and black teachers , that is helping us. And we are doing better. But there's still more murders per 100,000 population than even Chicago. The black on black murders since 1980 has eclipsed all lynchings, and pre civil rights murders in Mississippi by thousands of times over. But overall, its a better time now than it was. But if we could just stop all the killing among ourselves it could feel safer. I'm hoping that we could have some July 4th BBQ's and maybe some birthday parties without the whole house and neighborhood getting shot up to hell and all our friends getting shot. But we just needs some more time. It'll work out for better. Other parts of the state are doing well though. But Grenada and Columbus are always in the news with folks getting shot for just no reason. Just fight'n over girlfriend, money and drugs. This has to stop cause these towns are becoming so dangerous and folks dying every week. But at least its now like it was in the freedom summer of 1964. That was bad.. They killed those boys. Worst thing ever. But we just needs some more time and everythings gone be all right.