Justice for Ella: A Story That Needed to Be Told

Based on actual events from Mississippi’s Civil Rights Movement, Justice for Ella is a story of two women—one black, one white—who fought and won against seemingly insurmountable meanness. For Ella Gaston and Jewell McMahan, the fight was about justice, in a time and place when it was rarely bestowed on either black people or women. On a Sunday afternoon in 1959 in Shuqualak, Mississippi, Ella and her husband Nelse were arrested in front of their children and hauled off to the notorious Nox...