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Scottsboro : a tragedy of the American South (Rev. ed)

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Scottsboro tells the riveting story of one of this country's most famous and controversial court cases and a tragic and revealing chapter in the history of the American South.

In 1931, two white girls claimed they were savagely raped by nine young black men aboard a freight train moving across northeastern Alabama.

The young men-ranging in age from twelve to nineteen-were quickly tried, and eight were sentenced to death.

The age of the defendants, the stunning rapidity of their trials, and the harsh sentences they received sparked waves of protest and attracted national attention during the 1930s. Originally published in 1970, Scottsboro triggered a new interest in the case, sparking two film documentaries, several Hollywood docudramas, two autobiographies, and numerous popular and scholarly articles on the case.

In his new introduction, Dan T. Carter looks back more than thirty-five years after he first wrote about the case, asking what we have learned that is new about it and what relevance the story of Scottsboro still has in the twenty-first century.

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0807132888 / 9780807132883
Paperback / softback
30/09/2007
United States
English
xxvii, 479 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.
24 cm
Previous ed.: 1979.