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Stories of Scottsboro

Stories of Scottsboro

Goodman, James

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0679761594
ISBN13: 9780679761594
Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
Published: Mar 28 1995
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.01
Height: 1.01 Width: 5.18 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
From the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of But Where Is the Lamb? comes a grippingly narrated work of history and edge-of-the-seat reportage (Chicago Tribune) that tells the story of a case that marked a watershed in American racial justice.

To white Southerners, it was a heinous and unspeakable crime that flouted a taboo as old as slavery. To the Communist Party, which mounted the defense, the Scottsboro case was an ideal opportunity to unite issues of race and class. To jury after jury, the idea that nine black men had raped two white women on a train traveling through northern Alabama in 1931 was so self-evident that they found the Scottsboro boys guilty even after the U.S. Supreme Court had twice struck down the verdict and one of the victims had recanted.

This innovative work tells several stories. For out of dozens of period sources, Stories of Scottsboro re-creates not only what happened at Scottsboro, but the dissonant chords it struck in the hearts and minds of an entire nation.

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