I want to see this but I also don't. So far the trailer looks good and it has the potential to be a very powerful movie.
I wonder if they'll cover Emmett Till's father who was executed 10 years prior under similar circumstances...
Louis Till was an American soldier. He was the father of Emmett Till, whose murder in August 1955 at the age of 14 galvanized the civil rights movement. Till was court-martialed on two counts of rape and one count of murder in Italy in 1945 while serving in the U.S. Army and was executed by hanging.
The army was still segregated at the time, and he and another African-American private, Fred McMurray, were found guilty by an army court-martial of raping two Italian women and murdering one during an air raid in 1944. Both men were hanged. Wideman isn't convinced of their guilt.
"Louis Till nor Fred McMurray ever had a chance," Wideman tells NPR's Scott Simon. "It was decided long before anybody even knew their names that some black soldiers are going to take the fall for these crimes."
Ignoring this part of the story continues to be a tragedy.
This woman not only lost a son, but a husband as well - due to the exact same circumstances.
How else could she have been so strong?
The first time she was probably in grief / shock / couldn't make sense of it...
The second time she was furious and we all know what anger can do.