A murder trial brings a small Mississippi town's racial tensions to the flashpoint. Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamor and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice.
Dramatizes the final days of the lives of three civil rights leaders who, in 1964, traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registration and were killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan.