DVD
The last white knight
Performers
Byron de la Beckwith Jr., Paul Saltzman, Morgan Freeman, Harry Belafonte.
Publication Information
New York : Virgil Films & Entertainment, [2013]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (78 minutes) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
In 1965, 21-year-old Torontonian, Paul Saltzman drove to Mississippi, volunteering as a civil rights worker with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. He was arrested, spending ten days in jail. He was assaulted by a young Klansman. In 2007, Saltzman returned to find the KKK member who had punched him in the head, to explore if individual reconciliation was possible. He found him and a five year dialogue has ensued. Featuring interviews with Morgan Freeman and Harry Belafonte.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally produced as a documentary in 2012.
Bonus features: A white rapper ; Reactions to Obama becoming the first Black President ; Morgan Freeman - actor & Mississippi resident ; Paul Saltzman "White Citizens' council meeting."
Subjects
- Civil rights workers > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
- African American civil rights workers > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
- Civil rights > Mississippi.
- Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) > Mississippi > History > 20th century
- Saltzman, Paul.
- Beckwith, Byron de la.