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Material Type: | Juvenile audience, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Aretha |
ISBN: | 9781599350585 1599350580 |
OCLC Number: | 191956885 |
Description: | 128 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | The train from Chattanooga -- Jim Crow "justice" -- Death sentence -- Communist influence -- All the way to the Supreme Court -- Judge Horton's skepticism -- Bigotry on the bench -- Back to the high court -- The final trials -- Freedom. |
Series Title: | Civil rights series. |
Responsibility: | David Aretha. |
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Abstract:
Explores how the unfair trials of nine African-American men, dubbed the Scottsboro Boys, who were unjustly accused of raping and beating two white women in 1931, became a turning point in the civil rights movement and changed the American justice system for the better.
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