The Defender
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 Billed Cast
Sterling K. Brown
Scipio Africanus Jones
Featured Crew
George Tillman Jr.
Director
E. Nicholas Mariani
Writer
Shawn Levy
Producer