Scottsboro and Its Legacy: The Cases That Challenged American Legal and Social Justice by James R. Acker

Scottsboro and Its Legacy: The Cases That Challenged American Legal and Social Justice

James R. Acker

258 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

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Nine black teenagers were accused of raping two white women on a train in 1931 in northern Alabama. They were arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in the town of Scottsboro in little more than two weeks. The Scottsboro Boys case rapi...

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