Stories of Scottsboro Paperback - 1995
by James Goodman
An astonishing and innovative retelling of one of the landmark cases in the civil rights battles of this century--in which nine young black men were tried and convicted three separate times for raping two white women, and were finally freed by the Supreme Court. "A rich and compelling narrative, as taut and suspenseful as good fiction".--Washington Post.
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"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 World
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 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 Scottsboro re-creates not only what happened at Scottsboro, but the dissonant chords it struck in the hearts and minds of an entire nation.
"Extraordinary.... To do justice to the Scottsboro story a book would have to combine edge-of-the-seat reportage and epic narrative sweep. And it is just such a book that James Goodman has given us, a beautifully realized history...written with complete authority, tight emotional control, and brilliant use of archival material." -- Chicago Tribune
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- Title Stories of Scottsboro
- Author James Goodman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-03-28
- ISBN 9780679761594 / 0679761594
- Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.18 x 1.01 in (20.42 x 13.16 x 2.57 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931, Trials (Rape) - Alabama - Scottsboro
- Dewey Decimal Code 345
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 03/20/1995, Page 0
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