The Defender
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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.
- Status
- Rumored
- Production
- Searchlight Pictures, 21 Laps Entertainment
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Top Cast
Sterling K. Brown as Scipio Africanus Jones
Top Crew
George Tillman Jr. · Director
E. Nicholas Mariani · Writer
Shawn Levy · Producer
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