Before end credits: "The facts around the murders at the Algiers Motel on July 25th, 1967 were never conclusively established in a criminal proceeding. As a result, portions of this film were constructed and dramatized based on the recollections of the participants and available documents."
Prologue: "The great migration set in motion before a World War I would spur some six million African Americans to leave the cotton fields of the South for the lure of factory jobs and civil rights in the North. After World War II, white Americans began their own migration to the suburbs, drawing money and jobs away from increasingly segregated urban neighborhoods. By the '60's, racial tensions had reached a boiling point. Rebellions erupted in Harlem, Philadelphia, and Newark In Detroit, African Americans were restricted to a few overcrowded neighborhoods, patrolled by mostly white police force. The promise of equal opportunity for all turned out to be an illusion. Change was inevitable. It was only a matter of how, and when."
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