Mississippi: A Self-Portrait (1966)

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Synopsis by Jason Buchanan

Documentary filmmaker Frank de Felitta captures a vivid portrait of the insidious racism that permeated the south in a 1965 interview with Greenwood, Mississippi waiter/restaurateur Booker Wright, whose honest, unguarded comments about the oppression of southern blacks struck a major chord with the civil rights movement, and may have ultimately led to his being murdered shortly after the interview aired.

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Civil-Rights, murder, racism