UM Grisham Law Library DVD Collection

Explores past incidents of racial violence in the United States and their continuing impact, focusing on Congressman Robert Filner who, as an 18-year-old Freedom Rider, was jailed in Mississippi's Parchman Prison; Florida schoolteacher Lizzie Jenkins whose grandfather witnessed the lynching of five African Americans in 1916; and Congressman Artur Davis who as a law student worked to hold the Ku Klux Klan accountable for a 1981 lynching in Mobile, Alabama. Notes Barack Obama's presidential nomination as a turning point in American history.