The Defender
N/A19701h 42minEnglish
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Plot
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.
Writer | E. Nicholas Mariani |
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Director | George Tillman Jr. |
Actor | Sterling K. Brown |
Country | United States of America |
Production | Searchlight Pictures |