The Award Tally
FictionNonfiction
Back to the full ranking
Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South cover

Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South

Dan T. Carter

2

awards won

13

score

Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South

Scottsboro tells the riveting story of one of this country's most famous and controversial court cases and a tragic and revealing chapter in the history of the American South. In 1931, two white girls claimed they were savagely raped by nine young black men aboard a freight train moving across northeastern Alabama. The young men—ranging in age from twelve to nineteen—were quickly tried, and eight were sentenced to death. The age of the defendants, the stunning rapidity of their trials, and the harsh sentences they received sparked waves of protest and attracted national attention during the 1930s. In his new introduction, Dan T. Carter looks back more than thirty-five years after he first wrote about the case, asking what we have learned that is new about it and what relevance the story of Scottsboro still has in the twenty-first century.

Buy this book at Amazon
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Year
1969
ISBN-13
9780807132883
Genre
History
Topics
Scottsboro trialsRacial injustice in the American South1930s American legal history

If you liked Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, you could also like these

Similar Topics