Sensible Cinema: “Spies of Mississippi”

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When:
February 17, 2023 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm America/Los Angeles Timezone
2023-02-17T18:30:00-08:00
2023-02-17T21:00:00-08:00
Where:
Unitarian Church (and Zoom)
1187 Franklin Street
SF
CA
Black history month Sensible Cinema Spies of Misissippi Spies of Mississippi
We recognize Black History Month with this month’s film.  It highlights a clandestine operation in the state of Mississippi that was never well publicized.  The Director, Dawn Porter, pieces together a number of film clips that helps to bring this part of Black History into focus.
 
We’ll have a speaker and discussion after the film.  

Sensible Cinema

                                Unitarian Universalists of San Francisco

1187 Franklin Street

In recognition of Black History Month

Presents

SPIES OF MISSISSIPPI

  Friday, February 17, 2023

6:30pm (PDT), 7:30 pm (MDT), 8:30 pm (CDT), 9:30 pm (EDT)

(This event will be an hybrid event with both virtual and at-the-church viewing.)

Spies of Mississippi by director Dawn Porter is a journey into the chilling world of anti-civil rights espionage, the world of informants, infiltrators and agent provocateurs.                                                               

Stoked by the fear of desegregation, equality, and wanting to maintain the “Mississippi way of life”, the state formed the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission (MSSC) which operated from the 195s to 1997.  
 
This operation through a network of investigators, informants and spies infiltrated some of the largest Black organizations like the NAACP and CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) involving over 87,000 Americans in the course of a decade. 

Spies of Mississippi brings to light the Commission’s hidden role in many of the most important chapters of the Civil Rights Movement including the integration of the University of Mississippi, the killing of Medgar Evers, and the KKK murders of three civil rights workers in 1964.

 Join Sensible Cinema Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/96771856193?pwd=Um1ITWh4Q1pJL2RYbnZrOUw2enFxQT09

Meeting ID: 967 7185 6193; Passcode: 712125

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