(Ler) Epub Stories of Scottsboro
By James Goodman
"A rich and compelling narrative, as taut and suspenseful as good fiction. In places,
Stories of Scottsboro is almost heartbreaking, not least because Goodman shows
what people felt as well as what they thought." -- Washington Post Book WorldTo
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 and grippingly narrated work of history
tells the story of a case that marked a watershed in American racial justice. Or,
rather, it tells several stories. For out of dozens of period sources, Stories of
