The Defender

The Defender


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  • Runtime: 1h 36min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Searchlight Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: George Tillman Jr.

Summary

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.

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  • Sterling K. Brown

    as Scipio Africanus Jones
Directing George Tillman Jr. Director
Writing E. Nicholas Mariani Writer
Production Shawn Levy Producer

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