An Appeal for Justice: The Trials of the Scottsboro Nine

by John F. Wukovits

In 1931, nine African American teens were accused of raping two white women on a train traveling between Chattanooga and Memphis. During the first trial in Scottsboro, all of the defendants were tried, convicted, and sentenced to death despite medical evidence supporting their innocence. Subsequent appeals of this verdict turned the Scottsboro case into a high-profile example of the injustices that the African American community experienced at the...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420506765
• ISBN13: 9781420506761
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Lucent Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10