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The Defender ()
Directed by George Tillman Jr.
Scipio Africanus Jones was a courageous attorney who risked his life and career to defend 87 men wrongfully accused of murder in the wake of the Elaine, AR massacre of 1919, when a group of Black sharecroppers meeting in a church about unionization were attacked by a posse organized by white landowners.
Cast
Sterling K. Brown
Crew
- Director
- George Tillman Jr.
- Writer
- E. Nicholas Mariani
- Producer
- Shawn Levy
Details
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Searchlight Pictures, 21 Laps Entertainment