Les espions du Mississippi : Des traîtres dans le mouvement pour les droits civiques Bande-annonce (EN)

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00:00 ♪ Down in Mississippi ♪ ♪ Way down ♪
00:07 -Linda Johnson dit "There's America, there's the South, and then there's Mississippi."
00:12 -Mississippi was a violent place in the 1950s and 1960s.
00:16 ♪ As far back as I can remember ♪
00:20 -Any kind of civil rights agitation was a death-defying act.
00:26 -The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission was Mississippi's spy agency during the civil rights movement.
00:31 -The Sovereignty Commission wanted to know who the activists were in the black community.
00:36 ♪ Down in Mississippi ♪
00:41 -They were out to stop overt efforts at integration.
00:46 ♪ Down in Mississippi ♪
00:49 ♪ Where I was born ♪
00:52 -It's state government itself. We're not just talking about some rednecks on the street or pulling a song.
00:59 This is defined at its highest levels.
01:01 ♪ They had a high season ♪
01:03 ♪ And they were on the rocket ♪
01:05 -We knew we were being followed. I knew my life was in danger.
01:10 -This is still the United States of America, and you don't treat American citizens this way.
01:16 -You will be arrested for parading without a permit.
01:20 -How far the Sovereignty Commission went in terms of crossing legal lines,
01:26 I think it is accurate to say that they crossed them all the time.
01:30 ♪ Way down in Mississippi ♪
01:34 [Musique]