Accused! Accused!

Accused‪!‬

The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment

    • £9.49
    • £9.49

Publisher Description

This chilling and harrowing account tells the story of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African-American teenagers who, when riding the rails during the Great Depression, found their lives destroyed after two white women falsely accused them of rape. Award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner explains how it took more than eighty years for their wrongful convictions to be overturned.

In 1931, nine teenagers were arrested as they traveled on a train through Scottsboro, Alabama. The youngest was thirteen, and all had been hoping to find something better at the end of their journey. But they never arrived. Instead, two white women falsely accused them of rape. The effects were catastrophic for the young men, who came to be known as the Scottsboro Boys. Being accused of raping a white woman in the Jim Crow south almost certainly meant death, either by a lynch mob or the electric chair. The Scottsboro boys found themselves facing one prejudiced trial after another, in one of the worst miscarriages of justice in U.S. history. They also faced a racist legal system, all-white juries, and the death penalty. Noted Sibert Medalist Larry Dane Brimner uncovers how the Scottsboro Boys spent years in Alabama's prison system, enduring inhumane conditions and torture. The extensive back matter includes an author's note, bibliography, index, and further resources and source notes.

GENRE
Young Adult
RELEASED
2019
15 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
192
Pages
PUBLISHER
Astra Publishing House
SIZE
47.1
MB

More Books Like This

One Cut One Cut
2017
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults) Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults)
2018
Murder Among Friends Murder Among Friends
2022
The Freedom Summer Murders The Freedom Summer Murders
2014
The Port Chicago 50 The Port Chicago 50
2014
Blood, Bullets, and Bones Blood, Bullets, and Bones
2016

More Books by Larry Dane Brimner

Without Separation Without Separation
2021
Birmingham Sunday Birmingham Sunday
2010
Finding a Way Home Finding a Way Home
2020
Black and White Black and White
2011
Strike! Strike!
2014
The Rain Wizard The Rain Wizard
2015