Spies of Mississippi

In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Spies of Mississippi, some of the black leaders in the civil rights movement became more aware something suspicious was going on when white agents started showing up at their meetings, even if not yet aware of Sovereignty Commission. They just knew their meetings were not a secret: “by the time we leave in the morning, they gonna know anyway.”

This excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Spies of Mississippi looks at the people involved in the movement who ended up on the “other side,” who ended up working against the movement. They were either those who did not think it could possibly win, while some just could not believe the government would be involved in anything illegal.

In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary Spies of Mississippi, we learn about the training civil rights activists from the north went through in Ohio for the 1964 Summer Project, to prepare themselves “to be beaten, to be put in jail, and to be killed.”