The last white knight

Resource Information

The work The last white knight represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Milton Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The last white knight

Contributor

• Beckwith, Delay de la
• Belafonte, Harry, 1927-
• hoopla digital
• Ingram, Jim, 1932-2009
• Saltzman, Paul
• Freeman, Morgan

Film director

• Saltzman, Paul

Subject

• Beckwith, Byron de la
• Civil rights -- Mississippi
• Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
• Mississippi -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
• Saltzman, Paul
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

eng

Summary

Two men, one a white segregationist and Klansman, a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, and the other a white SNCC-Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee-civil rights worker, first met, violently, in Greenwood, Mississippi in 1965 and barely avoided ruining each other's lives. They meet 43 years later, on camera, to explore whether reconciliation is possible. Byron (Delay) de la Beckwith Jr. and ex-civil rights worker and filmmaker, Paul Saltzman, met and filmed over a 5-year period, beginning in 2007. Delay's father, Byron de la Beckwith, Sr., was a high-ranking official of the KKK and a founder of the White Citizens Council. In 1963, Delay's father murdered Medgar Evers, then head of the NAACP in Mississippi. Saltzman meets Delay for the first time since 1965 on the steps of the Leflore County Courthouse, the site where Beckwith Jr. punched Saltzman in the head. His ongoing conversations with Delay forms the narrative through-line of the film. Using graphic novel sequences the murder of Medgar Evers and the near-death experiences of Harry Belafonte and Jimmy Travis, all civil rights workers, at the hands of the KKK, are revisited. As the two individuals come together to discuss the current state of the world and how their feelings and opinions have changed, viewers will also hear from prominent figures about their stances on race relations

Cataloging source

Midwest

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Directed by Paul Saltzman

Intended audience

Rated R

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PerformerNote

Morgan Freeman, Harry Belafonte, Delay De La Beckwith, Paul Saltzman, Jim Ingram

Runtime

77

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action