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DESCRIPTION:Free screening.\nDiscussion to follow.\n\nSpies of Mississippi\n\nIt is the 
 spring of 1964 and a long, hot Mississippi summer is about to explode. The 
 civil rights community is gearing up for a major operation nicknamed 
 Mississippi Freedom Summer.  Hundreds — if not thousands — of mostly 
 white student activists from the North are preparing to link up with dozens 
 of mostly black freedom workers in the Magnolia State to accomplish what 
 the Mississippi power structure fears the most: registering black people to 
 vote.\n\nThe state’s entrenched white power structure has a different 
 name for Freedom Summer — they call it an “invasion” and they are 
 ready to fight back.  For the segregationists Freedom Summer is nothing 
 less than a declaration of war on the Mississippi way of life. The state 
 responds by fortifying its Highway Patrol and 82 county sheriff offices 
 with hundreds of newly sworn-in deputies, stockpiling tear gas and riot 
 gear in larger cities and preparing prison wardens and county jailers to 
 expect an influx of summer guests. This tinderbox needs very little to 
 ignite.\n\nBut the most powerful men in the state have another even more 
 powerful weapon in their arsenal — a secret so well kept it is known to 
 only a small circle of insiders: The state of Mississippi has entered the 
 spy business. A no-nonsense group called the  Mississippi State Sovereignty 
 Commission has quietly created a secret, state-funded spy agency answering 
 directly to the Governor.  The Commission has infiltrated the civil rights 
 coalition, eavesdropping on its most private meetings, and pilfering its 
 most sensitive documents. The spies’ method of obtaining such sensitive 
 information can be traced to an even more explosive secret known only to a 
 handful of state officials that oversee the Commission and its anti-civil 
 rights spy apparatus.  The Commission’s most potent weapon is a cadre of 
 black operatives code who have infiltrated the movement, rooting out its 
 future plans, identifying its leaders and tripping up its foot soldiers. 
 Along with a cadre of confederates, the black operatives are  gaining the 
 trust of civil rights crusaders to gain intelligence for the segregationist 
 state.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/23/18756174.php
SUMMARY:Film: Spies of Mississippi
LOCATION:909 12th Street, Sacramento
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/23/18756174.php
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