Remembering Scottsboro : the legacy of an infamous trial /

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How one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in the United States continues to haunt the nation's racial psycheIn 1931, nine black youths were charged with raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. Despite meager and contradictory evidence, all nine were found guilty and eight of the de...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Miller, James A., 1944-2015
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1931
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931.
Trials (Rape) > Alabama > Scottsboro.
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931 > Fiction.
Law in literature.
Procès des garçons de Scottsboro, Scottsboro, Alab., 1931.
Procès (Viol) > Alabama > Scottsboro.
Procès des garçons de Scottsboro, Scottsboro, Alab., 1931 > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Droit dans la littérature.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Trials (Rape)
Rezeption
Kultur
Rassendiskriminierung
Vergewaltigung
Alabama > Scottsboro.
Scottsboro, Ala.
USA
USA.
Fiction.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Framing the Scottsboro Boys
  • "Scottsboro, too" : the writer as witness
  • Staging Scottsboro
  • Fictional Scottsboro
  • Richard Wright's Scottsboro of the Imagination
  • Scottsboro defendant as proto-revolutionary : Haywood Patterson
  • Cold War Scottsboros
  • Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird : the final stage of the Scottsboro narrative.

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