Spies of Mississippi screening and dialogue

Spies of Mississippi uncovers the betrayal of the Black Freedom movement by prominent Civil Rights insiders and leadership. A legacy of operatives and informants have existed from Denmark Vesey to MLK. How might betrayal and misdirection be transposed into the present? Genuine leadership counters approved narrative by critiquing the status quo (not “integrating into a burning house“). In old Civil Rights era Mississippi, and Savannah today, collusion and complicity operate to keep things the same. The costumes and languages have changed, but the tactics for undermining genuine self-liberation, autonomy and self-determination may be business as usual.