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K-State Today

January 21, 2015

Free screening of 'Spies of Mississippi' at the Beach Museum of Art

Submitted by Martha Scott

As part of Kansas State University's Martin Luther King Jr. Observance Week, a free screening of "Spies of Mississippi" will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art. The film is about the state of Mississippi's actions to undermine the civil rights movement.

Enter the chilling world of anti-civil rights espionage. "Spies of Mississippi" reveals in shocking detail the state of Mississippi's effort to undermine the civil rights movement using a vast network of spies. The Sovereignty Commission would stop at nothing, even murder, to retain what they called the "Mississippi way of life."

K-State Black Student Union members Justice Davis, Justine Floyd, Michael Shode, Dominic White and Katheryne Johnson will moderate discussion.