'' Murder in Mississippi '' is a 1990 television film which dramatized the last weeks of civil rights activists Michael " Mickey " Schwerner , Andrew Goodman and James Chaney , and the events leading up to their disappearance and subsequent murder during Freedom Summer in 1964 . It starred Tom Hulce as Schwerner , Jennifer Grey as his wife Rita , Blair Underwood as Chaney , and Josh Charles as Goodman . Hulce received a nomination for Best Actor in a TV Miniseries at the 1990 Golden Globes
their disappearance and subsequent murder
Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
Murder in Mississippi