In honor of Black History Month, Caltech Public Programming's MOVIES THAT MATTER presents the award winning documentary film 100 Years From Mississippi

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.

A live Q&A will follow with filmmakers Tarabu Betserai Kirkland and Barry Shabaka Henley, as well as, Caltech's Danielle L. Wiggins, Assistant Professor of History, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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