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Language: en
Pages: 363
Pages: 363
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
A powerful novel about race, class, sex, and a lie that refused to die. Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime:
Language: en
Pages: 165
Pages: 165
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: NYU Press
A unique graphic history of one of the most controversial legal decisions of all time—with 118 powerful linoleum prints In 1931, nine black youths were falsel
Language: en
Pages: 196
Pages: 196
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-06 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
An absorbing analysis of a 1936 case that exonerated three black sharecroppers tortured into confessing a murder they did not commit
Language: en
Pages: 194
Pages: 194
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-15 - Publisher: Astra Publishing House
This chilling and harrowing account tells the story of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African-American teenagers who, when riding the rails during the Great Depressi
Language: en
Pages: 128
Pages: 128
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher:
Examines the individuals and the issues involved in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case which affirmed the right of an accused person to effective legal repres