Film
The Defender
N/A
United States- Director
- 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.
Top cast
Directed by
George Tillman Jr.
Written by
E. Nicholas Mariani
Produced by
Shawn Levy