Jamie Foxx to star in Zebra Murders

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Oct 25, 2007, 21:35 GMT

Los Angeles - Oscar winner Jamie Foxx (Ray) has been cast to star in The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights, a movie about racially motivated killings in San Francisco in 1973 and 1974.

Oscar winner Jamie Foxx (Ray) has been cast to star in The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights, a movie about racially motivated killings in San Francisco in 1973 and 1974. © Chris Hatcher / PR PhotosThe movie is based on the 2006 book by Prentice Earl Sanders and Bennett Cohen.Foxx will play Sanders, who was one of two black police detectives who led the team that cracked the case. Amid their investigation, Sanders and his partner fought harassment within the police department and organized a union of minority policemen who brought a lawsuit against the city for discrimination, which they ultimately won. Sanders went on to become chief of police.

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The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights

About racially motivated killings in San Francisco in 1973 and 1974. The movie is based on the 2006 book by Prentice Earl Sanders and Bennett Cohen. Foxx will play Sanders, who ...more

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