100 Years From Mississippi

  Directed by: Tarabu Betserai Kirkland Released: 2022 (educational) Year of Production: 2020 Running Time: 60 min Language: English Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects: African American Studies, Race Power and Privilege      ‘100 Years From Mississippi’ is a true story of resilience, forgiveness, memory, and hope.   Winner of the Best Documentary at the Harlem International Film Festival 2021 and Best Documentary Feature at the National Black Film Festival 2021   Book the filmmaker, Tarabu, for a campus screening + Q&A.   More about the film Mamie Lang Kirkland was seven years old when she fled Ellisville, Mississippi in 1915 with her mother and siblings as her father and his friend, John Hartfield, escaped an approaching lynch mob. John Hartfield returned to Mississippi in 1919 and was killed in one of the most horrific lynchings of the era.  Mamie’s son, Tarabu, had grown up hearing stories of John Hartfield but didn’t know if his mother’s