Sentences with phrase «young white women accused»

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It's 1941 and Marshall (Chadwick Boseman) is a hotshot young NAACP attorney, who, like Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, is defending a black man accused of rape by a white woman.

One of his first clients was Walter McMillian, a young black man accused of murdering a white woman and imprisoned on death row even before he was tried.

In the face of overwhelming prejudice and ignorance, he bravely defends a young black man falsely accused of raping a white woman inAlabamaduring the early 1930's.