The Last White Knight
- Original title
- The Last White Knight
- Year
- 2012
- Running time
- 78 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Morgan Freeman
- Harry Belafonte
- John Lewis
- Delay de la Beckwith
- Joe Harris
- Tbone Pruitt
- Richard Barrett
- Jim Ingram
- Donna Ladd
- Jimmie Travis
- Joecephus Martin
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production United States-Canada;
- Genre
- Documentary | Biography. Racism
- Synopsis
- In 1965, 21-year-old Torontonian, Paul Saltzman drove to Mississippi, volunteering as a civil rights worker with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. He was arrested, spending 10 days in jail. He smuggled letters out of jail to the Toronto Star. Canadian Foreign Affairs requested his release but Saltzman declined. Posted to one of the toughest segregationist towns, Greenwood, he helped disadvantaged sharecroppers register to vote. He was assaulted by a young Klansman. In 2007, Saltzman returned to find the KKK member who had punched him in the head, to explore if individual reconciliation was possible. He found him and a 5 year dialogue has ensued. His assailant was Byron de la Beckwith Jr., whose father, Byron de la Beckwith Sr. murdered NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers.
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