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Stories of Scottsboro

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Availability:In StockContributor:James GoodmanPublish date:1995-03-28Pages:496
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679761594ISBN-10:679761594UPC:9780679761594Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, United States, DiscriminationBook Topic:American, 20th CenturySize:8.04 x 5.18 x 1.01 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCXMGND5P0
From the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of But Where Is the Lamb? comes a grippingly narrated work of history and "edge-of-the-seat reportage" (Chicago Tribune) that tells the story of a case that marked a watershed in American racial justice.

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 Court had twice struck down the verdict and one of the "victims" had recanted.

This innovative work tells several stories. For out of dozens of period sources, Stories of Scottsboro re-creates not only what happened at Scottsboro, but the dissonant chords it struck in the hearts and minds of an entire nation.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679761594ISBN-10:679761594UPC:9780679761594Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, United States, DiscriminationBook Topic:American, 20th CenturySize:8.04 x 5.18 x 1.01 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCXMGND5P0
JAMES GOODMAN is the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of But Where Is the Lamb? Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac, Blackout, and Stories of Scottsboro. He has received fellowships and awards from NYU, Princeton, Rutgers, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the US editor of the journal Rethinking History and is a professor at Rutgers University, where he teaches history and creative writing. He lives in New York.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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