The Scottsboro Boys in Their Own Words : Selected Letters, 1931-1950
- List Price: $45.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
- Publish date: 06/30/2013
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"Remains in our historical memory, both questioning and defining civil rights in Depression America...remarkably gives the case a new perspective...strongly recommended"- Library Journal ; "though many of the Scottsboro Nine were illiterate at the time of their arrest, the letters collected here show their intellectual development as they grew from youth caught up in the usual mistreatment of blacks in the rural South to men part of an international cause clbre"- Booklist ; "this book makes a much-needed contribution to the scholarship on the Scottsboro case, and is strongly recommended for researchers and faculty interested in race and the criminal justice system. Highly recommended"- Choice .
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