Book
Accused! : the trials of the Scottsboro Boys : lies, prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights, [2019]
Physical Description
189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
1931. Nine black teenagers were arrested as they traveled on a train through Scottsboro, Alabama after a fight; two white women then falsely accused them of rape. Such accusations in the Jim Crow south almost certainly meant death, either by a lynch mob or the electric chair. The Scottsboro boys found themselves facing one prejudiced trial after another, a racist legal system, all-white juries, and the death penalty. They spent years in Alabama's prison system, enduring inhumane conditions and torture. Brimner shows that the trials and the two Supreme Court verdicts they produced left a lasting imprint that continues to this day.
Contents
- Journey interrupted
- Accused
- A hot time in the old town
- A legal lynching
- Reprieve
- A new year, a new trial
- Before Judge Callahan
- A fair trial
- Half out and half in
- Obscurity
- Back in the headlines.
Subjects
- Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931 > Juvenile literature.
- Trials (Rape) > Alabama > Scottsboro > Juvenile literature.
- African Americans > Civil rights > History > Juvenile literature.
- Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931.
- Trials (Rape) > Alabama > Scottsboro.
- African Americans > Civil rights > History.
- Scottsboro (Ala.) > Race relations > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- Scottsboro (Ala.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
- United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment > Juvenile literature.
- United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment.