Article
Revisiting Scottsboro: Evaluating Legacy and Documenting Communist Perspective
History: Reviews of New Books
Abstract
Mention Scottsboro and certain concepts usually come to mind, such as the most sensational crime of the 1930s and legal injustice in the 1930s and legal injustice in the segregated South. The facts of the Scottsboro trials certainly attest to that mindset.
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History and Political Science
Document Type
Review - Book
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Citation
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text
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English
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© 2008 Taylor & Francis, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
3-1-2008
Publication Date
01 Mar 2008
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Citation Information
Petra DeWitt. "Revisiting Scottsboro: Evaluating Legacy and Documenting Communist Perspective" History: Reviews of New Books Vol. 36 Iss. 3 (2008) p. 89 - 92 ISSN: 0361-2759; 1930-8280 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/petra-dewitt/3/
James R. Acker. Scottsboro and Its Legacy: The Cases That Challenged American Legal and Social Justice. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.
Walter T. Howard, ed. Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro: A Documentary History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008