The Defender
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Sterling K. Brown
Scipio Africanus Jones

George Tillman Jr.
Director

E. Nicholas Mariani
Writer

Shawn Levy
Producer

Nicholas Mariani
Writer

Dan Cohen
Producer
Details.
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