Mississippi Burning	

Homework

Instructions: 

Vocabulary: Define the listed terms and describe how or why they are significant to the film and / or the history involved. You may have to use outside sources.

1.  Mississippi Summer Project	5.  Ku Klux Klan	
2.  Michael Schwerner	6.  C.O.R.E.	
3.  Andrew Goodman	7.  Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price	
4.  James Chaney	8.  Freedom Summer	

Discussion: Write a paragraph or a short paper to explain the requested information. Why is this important to the history involved?

1.  The sentences for the perpetrators of the crimes ranged from 3 to 10 years. Some were acquitted.

a.)  Explain the relatively short sentences considering the severity of the crimes.

b.)  Edgar Ray Killen was indicted on three counts of murder in 2005. What was the result of this trial and why do you think that it was different?

2.	Go to the CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) website. Compare the film to the real events – how real is Saving Private Ryan?
http://www.core-online.org/
http://core-online.org/History/freedom_summer.htm
http://core-online.org/History/mississippi_burning.htm