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Jun 2, 2020 · In the film, Michael B. Jordan plays attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, who helps a character played by Jamie Foxx. It’s based on Stevenson’s 2014 memoir “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption,” one of the books that has rocketed to the top of best-seller lists as protests have swept the country.
Jan 10, 2020 · January 10, 2020. This article contains spoilers. If there’s one thing to take away from Just Mercy, the film that tells the story of Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson, it’s this: Atticus Finch was made up. Bryan Stevenson, on the other hand, is quite real.
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- Bryan Stevenson: Born Into Segregation
- The Case of Walter Mcmillian
- Stevenson Defends Mcmillian
- Bryan Stevenson’s Work After Freeing Mcmillian
Before he graduated from the hallowed halls of Harvard Law School in 1985, Bryan Stevenson was born in Nov. 14, 1959 in the aftershock of the Jim Crow South. During the Great Migration, his family had relocated to Milton, Delaware, and systemic violence against the black community quickly shaped his views on justice. Brown v. Board of Education had...
Walter McMillian was a black man raised outside Monroeville, Alabama. He picked cotton before he was old enough to go to school, and in the 1970s he started his own pulpwood business. He wasn’t rich, but he was much more independent than most of the rest of the local black community — and much freer than the white people around him thought he had a...
The film Just Mercy,based on Bryan Stevenson’s book of the same name, focuses on his tireless pursuit of the truth in McMillian’s case, and that begins with the testimony of Ralph Myers. With no leads on who killed the white woman in Monroeville, police saw an opportunity with Myers after they arrested him on suspicion of another murder. During int...
Walter McMillian’s exoneration put a much-needed spotlight on racial injustice in the criminal justice system, and Bryan Stevenson has dedicated his career to the cause. With Stevenson at its helm, the Equal Justice Initiative has won more than 135 reversals, relief, or release from prison for people on death row, as well as relief for hundreds of ...
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Bryan Stevenson, the author and narrator of Just Mercy, is a lawyer and the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). The memoir details Stevenson’s path from a twenty-three-year-old law...
Aug 15, 2016 · In 1989, a twenty-nine-year-old African-American civil-rights lawyer named Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, and founded an organization that became the Equal Justice Initiative. It...
Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. A widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned, he has won numerous awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Prize and the ACLU’s National Medal of Liberty.
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Jan 12, 2020 · It stars Michael B. Jordan who plays Stevenson and Jamie Foxx as Walter McMillian, a black man awaiting execution on death row for a crime he didn’t commit.
