$16 General Admission / FREE for Members
Please note there are two screening dates:
SOLD OUT Saturday, September 11 | 2 - 3:30pm (PDT)
SOLD OUT Sunday, September 12 | 2 - 3:30pm (PDT)
100 Years From Mississippi is a true story of resilience, forgiveness, memory, and hope.
Join the film’s writer and director Tarabu Betserai Kirkland and associate producer Barry Shabaka Henley for a Q&A following a screening of this new documentary.
About the Film:
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.
This program is a presentation of JANM’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy.
A ticket to this event grants you complimentary access to the Japanese American National Museum on the day of your screening.