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A Man Visited by History: Judge James E. Horton Jr. and the Scottsboro Case

A Man Visited by History: Judge James E. Horton Jr. and the Scottsboro Case

Brown, Steven P.

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Biographies GeneralGeneral LawRegional: South

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ISBN10: 0817322825
ISBN13: 9780817322823
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: Dec 15 2026
Pages: 256
Language: English

A revealing portrait of Judge James E. Horton Jr., whose quiet moral courage reshaped one of the most explosive legal battles in American history.

A Man Visited by History illuminates what author Steven P. Brown calls the last major Scottsboro trials-related subject to have eluded careful study the life of Judge James E. Horton Jr., the white Alabama Eighth Circuit judge who set aside an all-white jury's guilty verdict and death sentence in the second trial of African American defendant Haywood Patterson. Of the three trial judges and more than one hundred jurors who considered the cases of the Scottsboro defendants, Horton was the only one to find that the evidence against them was virtually nonexistent. Horton was then removed from further involvement with the cases and, despite being on the fast track to political prominence before the 1933 retrial of the Scottsboro defendants, was defeated for reelection as circuit judge in 1934. His ruling in the Patterson case impacted the Scottsboro defendants' lives and continues to affect their legacies today.

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