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DVD

Scottsboro : an American tragedy

Call Number

  • DVD 345.0253 S4319 (WSQ)

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Languages

Closed-captioned.

Performers

Narrator, André Braugher ; voices: Nesbitt Blaisdell, Sam Catlin, Jeffrey DeMunn, Julie Dretzin, Frances McDormand, Daver Morrison, Stanley Tucci, Lee Wilkof, Harris Yulin.

Publication Information

[Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation ; [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video, [2005]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

In March 1931, two white women stepped from a boxcar in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. The trials of the nine young men would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the civil rights movement.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a documentary and broadcast on PBS as an episode of American experience in 2001.

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