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1964 Freedom Summer Project http://preview.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:1474

Active U.S. Hate Groups (Southern Poverty Law Center) http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp

Allen, James. Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, 2000.

American Lynching http://www.americanlynching.com/

Andrews, Kenneth T. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004.

Ansen, David. “History A La Hollywood: Civil Rights And Wrongs.” Newsweek 14 January 1991. http://www.newsweek.com/id/121188

Ansen, David. "Mississippi Burning." Newsweek 12 December 1988: 72.

Arthur, Paul. ""Hollywood: The Dustbin of History." USA Today [Magazine] 117.2528 (May 1989):35.

Atwater, James. "If We Can Crack Mississippi." Saturday Evening Post 2 July 1964.

Ball, Howard. Justice in Mississippi: The Murder Trial of Edgar Ray Killen. Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 2006.

Ball, Howard. Murder in Mississippi: United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 2004.

Bayless, Les. "Three who gave their lives: Remembering the martyrs of Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964." People's Weekly World 25 May 1996. http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/046.html

Belfrage, Sally. Freedom Summer. [1965] Charlottesville, U of Virginia P, 1990.

Berger, Maurice. "A Radically Prosaic Approach to Civil Rights Images." http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/a-different-approach-to-civil-rights-images/?hp

Biewen, John. Oh Freedom Over Me. American RadioWorks. http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/oh_freedom/

Bourgeois, Henry. ""Hollywood and the Civil Rights Movement: The Case of Mississippi Burning." Howard Journal of Communications 4. 1-2 (1992) 157-63. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10646179209359771

Brinson, Susan L. "The Myth of White Superiority in 'Mississippi Burning.'" Southern Communication Journal 60.3 1995):211-20.

Cagin, Seth, and Phillip Dray. We are not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi. New York: Nation Books, 2006.

Cagin, Seth. Rev. of Mississippi Burning, dir. Alan Parker. Vogue December 1988: 332-37.

Canby, Vincent. "'Mississippi Burning': Generating Heat or Light? Taking Risks to Illuminate a Painful Time in America. New York Times 8 January 1989: H1.

Canby, Vincent. "America Seen Through Alien Eyes." New York Times 18 December 1988: H13.

Canby, Vincent. "Mississippi Burning." New York Times 9 December 1988: B1.

Carnes, Mark C. "Film and History: Shooting (Down) the Past: Historians vs. Hollywood." Cineaste 29.2 (2004): 45-49.

Carter, Hodding III. "Film Hides Real Heroes of Freedom Summer, 1964." Wall Street Journal 15 December 1988: A15.

Cha-Jua, Sundiata K. "Mississippi Burning: The Burning of Black Self-activity." Radical History Review 45 (1989): 124-36. http://rhr.dukejournals.org/content/1989/45/125.full.pdf+html

Chafe, William H. "Mississippi Burning." Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies. Ed. Mark C. Carnes. New York: Holt, 1995.

Chalmers, David Mark. Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

"The Civil Rights Movement." History Now 8 (June 2006). http://www.historynow.org/06_2006/index.html

Civil Rights Documentation Project http://www.usm.edu/crdp/

The Civil Rights Era. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html

Civil Rights Movement Veterans http://www.crmvet.org/

"Civil Rights, Burned." New York Times 30 December 1988: A10.

Cohen, Richard. "Hollywood’s Civil Wrongs." Washington Post 8 January 1989.

Corliss, Richard. "Fire This Time." Time 9 January 1989: 56.

Davis, Thulani. "Civil Rights and Wrongs." American Film 14.3 (1988):32-41.

Denby, David. "Mississippi Burning." New York 5 December 1988: 180.

Dessommes, Nancy Bishop. "Hollywood in Hoods: The Portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan in Popular Film." Journal of Popular Culture 32.4 (1999): 13-22.

Doherty, T. "'Mississippi Burning'" Cineaste 17.2 (1989): 48-50.

Ebert, Roger. Review of Mississippi Burning, dir. Alan Parker. Chicago-Sun Times 9 December 1988. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19881209/REVIEWS/812090301/1023

Emerson, Jim. "Mississippi Burning." http://cinepad.com/reviews/biglie.htm

Erenrich, Susie, ed. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: An Anthology of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement. Montgomery: Black Belt Press, 1999.

Excerpts from the Trial Transcript in United States vs Price et al. (the "Mississippi Burning" trial) http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/transcript.html

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954 to 1965. PBS Home Video, 1992.

Falk, Quentin. "Alan Parker.” Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Mi-Pe/Parker-Alan.html

Fireside, Harvey. The “Mississippi Burning” Civil Rights Murder Conspiracy Trial. Berkeley Heights: Enslow Publishers, 2002.

A Fragile Freedom: African American Historic Sites. The History Channel; A&E Home Video, 2002.

Free at last: Civil Rights Heroes. Image Entertainment, 2004.

Freedom on My Mind. California Newsreel, 1994.

Freedom Summer. CORE - Congress of Racial Equality http://www.core-online.org/History/freedom_summer.htm

French, Sean. "Mississippi Burning." Sight and Sound 58.2 (1989): 132.

Glover, Dave, and Cora Kaplan. "History in Flames." New Statesman & Society 2 May 1989: 19.

"Gottwald's Cap." Commonweal 10 February 1989: 67-68.

Halberstam, David. "Mississippi Burning." Premiere February 1989.

Hate Watch (Southern Poverty Law Center) http://www.splcenter.org/center/petitions/standstrong/index.jsp

Hendrickson, Paul. "20 Years Ago in the Heat of the Night." Washington Post 10 July 1984.

Higashi, Sumiko. "Walker and Mississippi Burning: Postmodernism versus Illusionist Narrative." The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media. Ed. Marcia Landy. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2001.

Hoberman, J. "Freedom Now?" Village Voice 20 December 1988.

Hoerl, Kristen. "Remembering and Forgetting Black Power in Mississippi Burning." Uncovering Hidden Rhetorics: Social Issues in Disguise. Ed. Barry Brummet. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2008.

Hoerl, Kristen. "Burning Mississippi into Memory? Cinematic Amnesia as a Resource for Remembering Civil Rights." Critical Studies in Media Communicatio 26.1 (2009): 54-79. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295030802684059

Hogan, Wesley C. Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2007.

Howe, Desson. Review of Mississippi Burning, dir. Alan Parker. Washington Post 9 December 1988.

Huie, William Bradford. Three Lives for Mississippi. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, [1965] 2000.

I have a dream. SpeechWorks: Nostalgia Co., 2004.

Jansson, David. "'A Geography of Racism': Internal Orientalism and the Construction of American National Identity in the Film Mississippi Burning." National Identities 7.3 (2005): 265-85.

Johnson, Brian. "Summer of Fire: Mississippi Burning." Maclean's 26 December 1988: 61.

The Jury's Decision http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/jury.html

Kael, Pauline. "Mississippi Burning." New Yorker 26 December 1988: 73.

Kasher, Steven. The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68. New York : Abbeville Press, 1996.

Kasindorf, Martin. Review of Mississippi Burning, dir. Alan Parker. Newsday 12 February 1989.

Kauffmann, Stanley. Review of Mississippi Burning, dir. Alan Parker. New Republic 9 January 1989.

Kaufman, Jonathan. "Eyes on the Civil Rights Movement: 'Mississippi Burning' latest in a wave of works about the 'King Years.'" Boston Globe 8 January 1989: B1.

Keeping History Alive. http://www.keepinghistoryalive.com/index.html

Kellman, Steven G. "The Trials of Recent American Film." Antioch Review 50.3 (1992): 566-77.

Kempley, Rita. Review of Mississippi Burning, dir. Alan Parker. Washington Post 9 December 1988. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/mississippiburningrkempley_a0c9de.htm

Kifner, John. "Mississippi in '64: Fact vs. Fantasy." New York Times 6 July 1994): A13.

King, Coretta Scott. "Hollywood's Latest Perversion: The Civil-Rights Era as a White Experience." Los Angeles Times 13 December 1988): 7.

King, Wayne. "Fact vs. Fiction in Mississippi." New York Times 4 December 1988: H15. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=2&res=940DE2DA1F30F937A35751C1A96E948260&scp=3&sq=mississippi%20burning&st=cse

Klarman, Michael J. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality. New York: Oxford UP, 2004.

Klawans, Stuart. "Mississippi Burning." Nation 2 January 1989: 26.

The Knights Party, USA (The Ku Klux Klan) http://www.kkk.bz/

Lerner, Michael. "Mississippi Burning." Tikkun 4.2 (1989): 8.

Letofsky, Irv. Review of Mississippi Burning, dir. Alan Parker. Los Angeles Times 4 February 1990.

Linder, Douglas O. "Bending Toward Justice: John Doar and the Mississippi Burning Trial." http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/doaressay.html

Linder, Douglas O. "The Mississippi Burning Trial (U. S. vs. Price et al.)" http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/Account.html

Lipper, Hal. Review of Mississippi Burning, dir. Alan Parker. St. Petersburg Times 22 January 1989.

Madison, Kelly J. "Legitimation Crisis and Containment: The 'Anti-Racist-White-Hero' Film." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 16.4 (1999):399-416. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15295039909367108

Marquand, Robert. "Feelings Smolder Over 'Burning' Issue." Christian Science Monitor 24 February 1989: 11.

Mars, Florence. Witness in Philadelphia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1977.

Maslin, Janet. "Endings Can Really Finish a Movie." New York Times 1 January 1989: 2:15.

McAdam, Doug. Freedom Summer. New York: Oxford UP, 1988.

McCord, William. Mississippi: The Long Hot Summer. New York: Norton, 1965.

McCrisken, Trevor, and Andrew Pepper. "From Civil Rights to Black Nationalism?" American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2005. 160-86.

McPherson, James Alan. "Burning Memories, Mississippi 1964." New York Times 4 January 1989: 15.

McWhorter, Diane. A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1964 to 1968. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2004.

MIBURN (Mississippi Burning). Federal Bureau of Investigation. http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/miburn.htm

"Mississippi Burning." Economist 7 January 1989: 79.

Mississippi Freedom Summer â€" 1964 http://www.crmvet.org/images/imgfs.htm

Mississippi Freedom Summer Project 1964 digital collection. http://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/survey/view_collection.php?coll_id=2501

Mississippi Summer Project brochure http://www.keepinghistoryalive.com/freedom-brochure.html

"Mississippi Summer: The Unfinished Journey." WBZ-TV Boston, 1984.

Mississippi, America. Dept. of Radio-Television at Southern Illinois University: Distributed by PBS Video, 1995.

Mississippi: is this America?. PBS Video, 1986.

Murder in Mississippi: The Price of Freedom. Princeton: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1994.

Museum of Broadcast Communications. “The Civil Rights Movement and Television” http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=civilrights

Neshoba: The Price of Freedom (2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVzHFa1toug

Nevin, David. "A Strange Tight Little Town, Loathe to Admit Complicity." Life 18 December 1964.

Nielsen, Aldon L. "Nostalgia and the Racial Epiphany." CLA Journal 39.2 (1995): 195-207.

Niemi, Robert. History in the Media: Film and Television. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006.

Peerman, Dean. "Mississippi Burning." Christian Century 21 december 1988: 1188.

Prince, Stephen. American Cinema of the 1980s: Themes and Variations. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2007.

Rael, Patrick. "Freedom Struggle Films: History or Hollywood?" Socialist Review 2.3 (1992): 119-30.

Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2003.

"A Recollection of Michael Schwerner." The Reporter 16 July 1964.

Ressner, Jeffrey. “The Burning Truth.” Rolling Stone 17 November 1988.

Rocchio, Vincent F. "Mississippi (and History) Burning." Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood's Construction of Afro-American Culture. Boulder: Westview, 2000. 95-113.

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "A Perversion of the Past (Mississippi Burning)." Berkeley: U of California P, 1997. 118-24. http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7601

Rosenstone, Robert. Revisioning History: Film and the Construction of a New Past. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1995.

Rothschild, Mary Aiken. A Case of Black and White: Northern Volunteers and the Southern Freedom Summers. Hartford: Greenwood, 1982.

Rugaber, Walter. "ALL-WHITE JURY PICKED AS TRIAL OF 18 IN SLAYING OF 3 RIGHTS WORKERS BEGINS IN MISSISSIPPI." New York Times 10 October 1967.

Rugaber, Walter. "DEADLOCKED JURY IS ORDERED TO CONTINUE DELIBERATIONS IN MISSISSIPPI SLAYINGS OF 3 RIGHTS WORKERS." New York Times 20 October 1967.

Rugaber, Walter. "MISSISSIPPI JURY CONVICTS 7 OF 18 IN RIGHTS KILLINGS." New York Times 21 October 1967.

Salamon, Julie. "Mississippi Burning." Wall Street Journal 8 December 1988: A12.

Salvaggio, David William. "Mississippi travelin': A Teacher's Portrait of the South with Continued Racism." Education 111.4 (1991): 568-72.

Sanello, Frank. Reel v. Real: How Hollywood Turns Fact into Fiction. New York: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2003.

Schickel, Richard. “The Fire in the South - - Mississippi Burning.” Time 5 December 1988. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,956462,00.html

Shipman, David. "Mississippi Burning." Contemporary Review 259.1507 (August 1991): 103.

Simon, John. Review of Mississippi Burning, dir. Alan Parker. National Review 10 March 1989.

Sitkoff, Harvard. "Mississippi Burning." Journal of American History 76.3 (1989): 1019.

Smithee, Alan. "Mississippi's Burning." Media Matters. http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~media/MissBu.html

Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.splcenter.org/

Staples, Brent. "'Mississippi Burning': Generating Heat or Light." New York Times 8 January 1989: H1.

Toplin, Robert Brent. History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1996.

Travers, Peter. Review of Mississippi Burning, dir. Alan Parker. People Weekly 12 December 1988.

U. S. vs Cecil Price et al. ("Mississippi Burning" Trial) 1967. The "Famous Trials" web site. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/price&bowers.htm

An Unlikely Friendship. New York: Filmmakers Library, 2002.

Watson, Bruce. Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and America a Democracy: New York: Viking, 2010.

Welch, Neil J., and David W. Marston. Inside Hoover's FBI: The Top Field Chief Reports. Garden City: Doubleday, 1984.

Whitehead, Don. Attack on Terror: The FBI against the Klu Klux Klan in Mississippi. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1970.

Will, George F. "'Mississippi Burning': A Flawed Account." Washington Post 12 January 1989: A19.

Williams, Juan. "What About the Black Heroes?" Washington Post 9 December 1988: C1.

Without Sanctuary. http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/

Zinn, Howard. SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Boston: Beacon Press, 1965.

Zinn, Howard. The Southern Mystique. New York, Knopf, 1964.