Scottsboro
A Fiction, Americana, Crime book. I'd only ever heard about the Scottsboro boys in passing before reading this book, which is shocking now that...
Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting with white boys. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, and fast as anyone can say Jim Crow, the cry of rape goes up. One of the girls sticks to her story. The other changes her tune, again and again. A young journalist, whose only connection to the incident is her overheated social conscience, fights to save the nine youths from...
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- Pages: 363 pages
- ISBN: 9780393064902 / 393064905
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More About Scottsboro
Ellen Feldman seamlessly weaves historical perspective into a myriad tapestry of the mores of a small Southern town that not only provided insight into black and white lives, but also how poverty alters truth as easily as racism. As nine black youths travelled in the Alabama Great Southern Railroad freight cars on an early spring day... Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman (W.W. Norton & Co. 2008) (Historical Fiction) is a retelling in novel form of the Southern tragedy of "The Scottsboro Boys." In Alabama in 1931, nine black youth ages 13 through 19 were accused of raping two white women on a freight train. One woman soon recanted, and it quickly became obvious that the story... I'd only ever heard about the Scottsboro boys in passing before reading this book, which is shocking now that I think about it. I'd heard about the town of Scottsboro, Alabama, the setting of an infamous trial in which nine African American boys were convicted on sketchy evidence for raping two white girls. But that's really all I knew...
