Great attempt at ugly tragedy in American history

Rating: 4/10 (20 February 2018)

Really wanted to like this movie and watched with my teenager. Although 1960s had a lot of unlawful acts by officials in power, this story has too many inconsistencies and poor attempts to mark the lawful officials as incompetent or weak-willed. I know this is by design to bring a certain emotion to the audience but while I felt anger and frustration at acts against citizens, I also felt it at for those trying to do the right thing. Hopefully young Americans will recognize the Civil Rights era as a dark time in history and how it appears to be seeping back into current day events but also recognize that many Americans on both sides of the color barrier can do better to make this country become greater.