Stories of Scottsboro

Name: Stories of Scottsboro
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ISBN: 9780679761594

ISBN-10: 0679761594

ISBN-13: 9780679761594

Edition: N/A

Authors: James Goodman

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"A rich and compelling narrative, as taut and suspenseful as good fiction. In places, Stories of Scottsboro is almost heartbreaking, not least because Goodman shows what people felt as well as what they thought." -- Washington Post Book World 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…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/28/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.04" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English