The Scottsboro Boys in Their Own Words: Selected Letters, 1931-1950

Book Overview

This is a collection of letters written by the nine African American defendants in the infamous March 1931 Scottsboro, Alabama, rape case. Though most of the defendants were barely literate and all were teenagers when incarcerated, over the course of almost two decades in prison they learned the rudiments of effective letter writing and in doing so forcefully expressed a wide range of perspectives on the falsity of the charges against them as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786472049
• ISBN13: 9780786472048
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher