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.

• Runtime: 1h 36min
• Production Company: Searchlight Pictures
• Production Country: United States of America
• Director: George Tillman Jr.