Scipio Africanus Jones -- a self-taught attorney who was born enslaved -- leads a momentous series of court cases to Save Twelve Black men who\'d been unjustly sentenced to death.
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Twelve of the sharecroppers were hastily tried and sentenced to death.
Many were killed by a white mob, and others were rounded up and arrested.
Bullets rained down on the meeting from outside.
In October 1919, a group of Black sharecroppers met at a church in an Arkansas village to organize a union.
Scipio Africanus Jones -- a self-taught attorney who was born enslaved -- leads a momentous series of court cases to Save Twelve Black men who\'d been unjustly sentenced to death