100 Years from Mississippi(2021)

100 Years from Mississippi Synopsis

Mamie Lang Kirkland still remembers the night in 1915 when panic filled her home in Ellisville, Mississippi. Her family was forced to flee in darkness from a growing mob of men determined to lynch her father and his friend. Mamie’s family escaped, but her father’s friend, John Hartfield, did not. He suffered one of the most horrific lynchings of the era. Mamie vowed to never return to Mississippi – until now. After one hundred years, Mamie’s youngest child, filmmaker, Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, takes his mother back to Ellisville to tell her story, honor those who succumbed to the terror of racial violence, and give testimony to the courage and hope epitomized by many of her generation

100 Years from Mississippi (2021) is a documentary film directed by Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, released on May 6, 2021 with a runtime of 1h. It stars Mamie Kirkland, Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, Barry Shabaka Henley and Joyce Guy.