The Man From Scottsboro

Author : Kwando Mbiassi Kinshasa
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 078641538X

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The Man from Scottsboro by Kwando Mbiassi Kinshasa Pdf

In March 1931, Clarence Norris, a self-described hobo, and eight other black men were arrested in Paint Rock, Alabama, and charged with raping two white girls who were also hoboes on the train he was riding. The one day trial of the nine men, better known as the "Scottsboro Boys" resulted in conviction and the death sentence despite a paucity of evidence. Though later pardoned, Norris spent 13 years in jail. (He died in 1989.) Clarence Norris's description of his arrest, trial and sentencing is both tragic and inspirational. His letters to his family, attorneys and supporters show his spirit as he struggled against a biased judicial system. A lengthy 1980 interview with Norris is supplemented by contemporary newspaper accounts of the trial, articles by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and Alabama Appeals Court Judge James E. Horton, and legal opinions of the defendants' attorney, Samuel S. Leibowitz.

Author : Kwando Mbiassi Kinshasa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931
ISBN : OCLC:1256530049

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The Man from Scottsboro by Kwando Mbiassi Kinshasa Pdf

Contains primary source material.

Author : Clarence Norris,Sybil D. Washington
Publisher : Acls History E-Book Project
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1597400971

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The Last of the Scottsboro Boys by Clarence Norris,Sybil D. Washington Pdf

Author : James Goodman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804151689

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Stories of Scottsboro by James Goodman Pdf

From the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of But Where Is the Lamb? comes a grippingly narrated work of history and "edge-of-the-seat reportage" (Chicago Tribune) that tells the story of a case that marked a watershed in American racial justice. To white Southerners, it was "a heinous and unspeakable crime" that flouted a taboo as old as slavery. To the Communist Party, which mounted the defense, the Scottsboro case was an ideal opportunity to unite issues of race and class. To jury after jury, the idea that nine black men had raped two white women on a train traveling through northern Alabama in 1931 was so self-evident that they found the Scottsboro boys guilty even after the U.S. Supreme Court had twice struck down the verdict and one of the "victims" had recanted. This innovative work tells several stories. For out of dozens of period sources, Stories of Scottsboro re-creates not only what happened at Scottsboro, but the dissonant chords it struck in the hearts and minds of an entire nation.

Author : Melanie S. Morrison
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822371670

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Murder on Shades Mountain by Melanie S. Morrison Pdf

One August night in 1931, on a secluded mountain ridge overlooking Birmingham, Alabama, three young white women were brutally attacked. The sole survivor, Nell Williams, age eighteen, said a black man had held the women captive for four hours before shooting them and disappearing into the woods. That same night, a reign of terror was unleashed on Birmingham's black community: black businesses were set ablaze, posses of armed white men roamed the streets, and dozens of black men were arrested in the largest manhunt in Jefferson County history. Weeks later, Nell identified Willie Peterson as the attacker who killed her sister Augusta and their friend Jennie Wood. With the exception of being black, Peterson bore little resemblance to the description Nell gave the police. An all-white jury convicted Peterson of murder and sentenced him to death. In Murder on Shades Mountain Melanie S. Morrison tells the gripping and tragic story of the attack and its aftermath—events that shook Birmingham to its core. Having first heard the story from her father—who dated Nell's youngest sister when he was a teenager—Morrison scoured the historical archives and documented the black-led campaigns that sought to overturn Peterson's unjust conviction, spearheaded by the NAACP and the Communist Party. The travesty of justice suffered by Peterson reveals how the judicial system could function as a lynch mob in the Jim Crow South. Murder on Shades Mountain also sheds new light on the struggle for justice in Depression-era Birmingham. This riveting narrative is a testament to the courageous predecessors of present-day movements that demand an end to racial profiling, police brutality, and the criminalization of black men.

Author : John F. Wukovits
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781420508475

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An Appeal for Justice by John F. Wukovits Pdf

In 1931, nine African American teens were accused of raping two white women on a train traveling between Chattanooga and Memphis. During the first trial in Scottsboro, all of the defendants were tried, convicted, and sentenced to death despite medical evidence supporting their innocence. Subsequent appeals of this verdict turned the Scottsboro case into a high-profile example of the injustices that the African American community experienced at the hands of the American judicial system. This informative edition takes a critical look at the story of the Scottsboro Boys and the controversial train ride that sparked outrage across the nation.

Author : Peggy Allen Towns
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781546226482

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Scottsboro Unmasked by Peggy Allen Towns Pdf

What is the picture of inequality? Is it race, gender, ethnicity, age, or place? Time and time again, our American history gives us the answer to that age-old question. In 1933, attorney Samuel Leibowitz argued that it was disparity in the jury pool and the innocence of nine. Sadly, the horrible malignancy of racism continues to exist and is the primary root of many prejudices and inequalities in our country today. This powerful historical narrative paints an amazing picture of the color line and the incredible bravery of people who took a stand for justice. The author resurrects the voices and the infamous case of the Scottsboro Nine. Their unmasked stories unfold against the backdrop of an economically depressed town, energized with an inferno of bigotry and violence. This groundbreaking research presents the courage of fearless men who rattled Americas conscience by challenging decades of discrimination and injustices within Alabamas legal system. On the other hand, the book reveals the sentiment of those who embraced the Old Souths ideology of inequality and exclusiveness, which put at risk the lives of nine innocent victims, young men who changed Americas judicial system. Fiat justitia rual coelomthis is Latin for Let justice be done though the heavens may fall. These are words that my grandfather, Judge James E. Horton, learned at his mothers knee. It seems he followed those wise words as he set aside the verdict and death sentence and ordered a new trial for Haywood Patterson. Though his decision cost him the next election, there were never any regrets. John Temple Graves, a Birmingham columnist, wrote of him, He does the right thing as he sees it, with no particular sense of the scene about him, but with an enormous sense of right-doing, ancestors gone and example-bound descendants to come. His social conscience is vertical rather than horizontal. We are the beneficiaries of his vertical conscience and I hope we will all strive to live by his example (Kathy Horton Garrett, Judge Hortons granddaughter).

Author : Ellen Feldman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393068390

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Scottsboro: A Novel by Ellen Feldman Pdf

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: 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 the electric chair, redeem the girl who repents her lie, and make amends for her own past. Intertwining historical actors and fictional characters, stirring racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism into an explosive brew, Scottsboro is a novel of a shocking injustice that convulsed the nation and reverberated around the world, destroyed lives, forged careers, and brought out the worst and the best in the men and women who fought for the cause.

Author : Mark S. Weiner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307425034

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Black Trials by Mark S. Weiner Pdf

From a brilliant young legal scholar comes this sweeping history of American ideas of belonging and citizenship, told through the stories of fourteen legal cases that helped to shape our nation. Spanning three centuries, Black Trials details the legal challenges and struggles that helped define the ever-shifting identity of blacks in America. From the well-known cases of Plessy v. Ferguson and the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings to the more obscure trial of Joseph Hanno, an eighteenth-century free black man accused of murdering his wife and bringing smallpox to Boston, Weiner recounts the essential dramas of American identity—illuminating where our conception of minority rights has come from and where it might go. Significant and enthralling, these are the cases that forced the courts and the country to reconsider what it means to be black in America, and Mark Weiner demonstrates their lasting importance for our society.

Author : Gilbert Geis,Leigh B. Bienen
Publisher : Northeastern University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781555538682

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Crimes Of The Century by Gilbert Geis,Leigh B. Bienen Pdf

In compelling narrative, the authors probe the sensational cases of Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., and Richard A. Loeb, the Scottsboro "boys," Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Alger Hiss, and O.J. Simpson, highlighting significant lessons about criminal behavior and the administration of criminal justice. Each case study details the crime, the police investigation, and the court proceedings, profiles the major players, and examines the outcome and aftermath of the trial. The authors untangle the perplexities surrounding the cases and illuminate the many mysteries that remain unsolved today. These celebrated trials reveal issues of overzealous prosecution, sloppy police work, judicial bias, race, class, and ethnic struggles, and the role of wealth in securing a competent defense. They also show how the temper of the times and frenzied media coverage heightened the intensity of drama in the cases.

Author : Delores D. Jones-Brown,Beverly D. Frazier,Marvie Brooks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216043256

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African Americans and Criminal Justice by Delores D. Jones-Brown,Beverly D. Frazier,Marvie Brooks Pdf

Does justice exist for Blacks in America? This comprehensive compilation of essays documents the historical and contemporary impact of the law and criminal justice system on people of African ancestry in the United States. African Americans and Criminal Justice: An Encyclopedia comprises descriptive essays documenting the ways in which people of African descent have been victimized by oppressive laws enacted by local, state, and federal authorities in the United States. The entries also describe how Blacks became disproportionately represented in national crime statistics, largely through their efforts to resist legalized oppression in early American history, and present biographies of famous and infamous Black criminal suspects and victims throughout early American history and in contemporary times. Providing coverage of law and criminal justice practices from the precolonial period, including the introduction of African slaves, up to practices in modern-day America, this encyclopedia presents a frank and comprehensive view of how Americans of African descent have come to be viewed as synonymous with criminality. This book represents an essential learning resource for all American citizens, regardless of race or age.

Author : Manning Marable,Leith Mullings
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742560574

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Let Nobody Turn Us Around by Manning Marable,Leith Mullings Pdf

One of America's most prominent historians and a noted feminist bring together the most important political writings and testimonials from African-Americans over three centuries.

Author : Leslie M. Alexander,Walter C. Rucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851097746

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Encyclopedia of African American History [3 volumes] by Leslie M. Alexander,Walter C. Rucker Pdf

A fresh compilation of essays and entries based on the latest research, this work documents African American culture and political activism from the slavery era through the 20th century. Encyclopedia of African American History introduces readers to the significant people, events, sociopolitical movements, and ideas that have shaped African American life from earliest contact between African peoples and Europeans through the late 20th century. This encyclopedia places the African American experience in the context of the entire African diaspora, with entries organized in sections on African/European contact and enslavement, culture, resistance and identity during enslavement, political activism from the Revolutionary War to Southern emancipation, political activism from Reconstruction to the modern Civil Rights movement, black nationalism and urbanization, and Pan-Africanism and contemporary black America. Based on the latest scholarship and engagingly written, there is no better go-to reference for exploring the history of African Americans and their distinctive impact on American society, politics, business, literature, art, food, clothing, music, language, and technology.

Author : Duchess Harris,Tom Head
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781532170614

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The Scottsboro Boys by Duchess Harris,Tom Head Pdf

In 1931, nine black teenagers were arrested in Alabama. The young men were accused of crimes they did not commit, including rape. This unjust arrest led to years of imprisonment and trials for the young men, who were known as the Scottsboro Boys. The Scottsboro Boys examines their legacy and how their trials shaped the criminal justice system. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Molefi Kete Asante,Ama Mazama
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 076192762X

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Encyclopedia of Black Studies by Molefi Kete Asante,Ama Mazama Pdf

Encyclopedia containing a full analysis of the economic, political, sociological, historical, literary, and philosophical issues related to Americans of African descent.