Accused! : the trials of the Scottsboro Boys : lies, prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment
1931. Nine black teenagers were arrested as they traveled on a train through Scottsboro, Alabama after a fight; two white women then falsely accused them of rape. Such accusations in the Jim Crow south almost certainly meant death, either by a lynch mob or the electric chair. The Scottsboro boys fou...
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Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
2019
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