100 YEARS FROM MISSISSIPPI (2nd Release) (2nd release)

100 YEARS FROM MISSISSIPPI (2nd Release) profiles the life of Mamie Lang Kirkland, who left Mississippi at a young age to escape racial violence. She would not confront that trauma or return to the state of her youth until a century later. Mamie was 7 years old when she fled Ellisville, Mississippi, in 1915 with her mother and siblings as her father and his friend, John Hartfield, escaped an approaching lynch mob. Hartfield returned to Mississippi in 1919 and was killed in one of the most horrific lynchings of the era. Mamie's son, Tarabu, had grown up hearing stories of Hartfield but didn’t know if his mother's stories were fact or folklore until one day in 2015. Tarabu discovered an article describing Hartfield's murder before a crowd of 10,000 spectators. At that moment, the idea for the film was born. Mamie had vowed for a century that she would never return to Mississippi. Yet with Tarabu's remarkable find, he urged his mother to finally confront her childhood trauma by returning to Ellisville. Mamie was 107 when they began the journey to connect her story to the larger impact of America's legacy of racial violence, which still echoes today.