Mississippi Burning
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Mississippi Burning
One day three social rights workers who helped a black boy disappeared. Two FBI agents came to find out where they’ve gone. They asked some black men, but they didn’t say anything. During the night always come a group of five men, who burned the houses of the black men. Anderson and Ward got the information that the car of the three men was found in the big swamps. Then ward called hundreds of agents and even the National Guard to search them. In the afternoon a truck threw out the one black man they had helped. The police took him up and brought him somewhere. Anderson and Ward went to the home of the police officer and asked him a few questions. Anderson asked his wife but she didn’t say a lot. He visited her again and again until she told him what her husband had done. The police officer is taken to the house of law, but he is called free.