Fair Game: Surviving a 1960 Georgia Lynching

Join documentary filmmaker Clennon King for a screening of Fair Game: Surviving a 1960 Georgia Lynching followed by a discussion of the film. While John F. Kennedy was making a run for the White House in May 1960, James Fair, Jr.—a 24-year-old black Navy veteran from Bayonne, New Jersey—made a fateful pitstop in rural Early County, Georgia, on a roadtrip to Florida. In just three days, he had been arrested, tried, and convicted for the rape and murder of an 8-year old girl and had been sentenced to Georgia’s electric chair. Fair Game chronicles the 26-month campaign that Alice Fair spearheaded to rescue her son from a county notorious for lynching.

Clennon King is a documentary filmmaker and founder of AugustineMonica Films, based in Roxbury, Massachusetts. King’s first documentary is the award-winning Passage at St. Augustine: A 1964 Black Lives Matter Movement that Transformed America. Central to both films are race, history, and civil rights, an interest he comes by honestly. He hails from a prominent civil rights family in Albany, Georgia, where his father, the late attorney C.B. King, represented scores of civil rights demonstrators, including Dr. King (no relation), during the 1961-62 Albany Movement.

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