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Film
The Defender
Unknown yearDirected by George Tillman Jr.
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About The Defender
Synopsis
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.
- Director
- George Tillman Jr.
- Writer
- E. Nicholas Mariani
