The Trial of the Scottsboro Boys
Greensboro, N.C. : Morgan Reynolds Pub., [2007]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 128 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm.
In 1931, while America was in the grips of the Great Depression, nine young black men fought with a group of white men while hoboing on a train near Scottsboro, Alabama. When police arrived to-arrest them at the train's next stop, the nine knew they were in trouble - but they had no idea just how much. Unbeknownst to them, two women who were also aboard the train told the police that the nine black men had assaulted and raped them. Evidence suggested that there was little truth to this accusation, but local police and citizenry, enraged at the idea of black men violating white women, immediately rounded up and arrested the nine black men, dubbing them the Scottsboro Boys. The Boys were quickly found guilty and sentenced to die in subsequent trials, but the lack of convincing evidence, and the blatant injustice of the rushed trials, outraged people nationwide. Soon the Scottsboro Boys were being fought for by the NAACP, socialists, and even President Franklin Roosevelt. They were all up against a powerful enemy - the deeply corrupt and racist justice system of Jim Crow-era Alabama. The trials and struggles for justice would carry on for years and change the face of justice and civil rights in America. Book jacket.
Series: Civil rights series
Contents:
The train from Chattanooga -- Jim Crow "justice" -- Death sentence -- Communist influence -- All the way to the Supreme Court -- Judge Horton's skepticism -- Bigotry on the bench -- Back to the high court -- The final trials -- Freedom.
Subjects:
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931.
Trials (Rape) -- Alabama -- Scottsboro.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931.
Trials (Rape) -- Alabama -- Scottsboro.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: 1180L
ISBN:
9781599350585 (hbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Civil Rights Are | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123) and index.