Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train.

Samuel Leibowitz

Judge James Horton

Victoria Price

William Lee

Thomas Knight, Jr.

Ruby Bates

Thomas Knight, Sr.

George Chamlee

Lyle Harris

Joseph Brodsky

Haywood Patterson

Wade Wright

Belle Leibowitz

Lester Carter

Willie Roberson

William Patterson

Leonard George

H.G. Bailey
July 20, 2006

Samuel Leibowitz

Judge James Horton

Victoria Price

William Lee

Thomas Knight, Jr.

Ruby Bates

Thomas Knight, Sr.

George Chamlee

Lyle Harris

Joseph Brodsky

Haywood Patterson

Wade Wright

Belle Leibowitz

Lester Carter

Willie Roberson

William Patterson

Leonard George

H.G. Bailey

