TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,James A.
TI  - Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial 
SN  - 9781400833221
U1  - 345.761/9502523 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alabama Army National Guard
KW  - Alabama
KW  - Andy Wright
KW  - Benjamin M. Miller
KW  - Charlie Weems
KW  - Chattanooga
KW  - Clarence Norris
KW  - Eugene Williams
KW  - Gadsden
KW  - George Wallace
KW  - John C. Anderson
KW  - Kilby Prison
KW  - Lookout Mountain
KW  - Milo Moody
KW  - Olin Montgomery
KW  - Ozie Powell
KW  - Paint Rock
KW  - Powell v. Alabama
KW  - Roy Wright
KW  - Ruby Bates
KW  - Sheriff Matt Wann
KW  - Southern Railway
KW  - Stephen Roddy
KW  - Supreme Court
KW  - Tennessee
KW  - Victoria Price
KW  - Willie Roberson
KW  - all-white audience
KW  - all-white jury
KW  - death sentence
KW  - disenfranchisement
KW  - legal representation
KW  - lynch mob
KW  - lynching
KW  - posse comitatus
KW  - rape
KW  - right to a fair trial
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER ONE FRAMING THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS --; CHAPTER TWO "SCOTTSBORO, TOO" --; CHAPTER THREE STAGING SCOTTSBORO --; CHAPTER FOUR FICTIONAL SCOTTSBOROS --; CHAPTER FIVE RICHARD WRIGHT'S SCOTTSBORO OF THE IMAGINATION --; CHAPTER SIX THE SCOTTSBORO DEFENDANT AS PROTO-REVOLUTIONARY --; CHAPTER SEVEN COLD WAR SCOTTSBOROS --; CHAPTER EIGHT HARPER LEE'S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD --; EPILOGUE --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - How one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in the United States continues to haunt the nation's racial psycheIn 1931, nine black youths were charged with raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. Despite meager and contradictory evidence, all nine were found guilty and eight of the defendants were sentenced to death-making Scottsboro one of the worst travesties of justice to take place in the post-Reconstruction South. Remembering Scottsboro explores how this case has embedded itself into the fabric of American memory and become a lens for perceptions of race, class, sexual politics, and justice. James Miller draws upon the archives of the Communist International and NAACP, contemporary journalistic accounts, as well as poetry, drama, fiction, and film, to document the impact of Scottsboro on American culture.The book reveals how the Communist Party, NAACP, and media shaped early images of Scottsboro; looks at how the case influenced authors including Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Harper Lee; shows how politicians and Hollywood filmmakers invoked the case in the ensuing decades; and examines the defiant, sensitive, and savvy correspondence of Haywood Patterson-one of the accused, who fled the Alabama justice system. Miller considers how Scottsboro persists as a point of reference in contemporary American life and suggests that the Civil Rights movement begins much earlier than the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955.Remembering Scottsboro demonstrates how one compelling, provocative, and tragic case still haunts the American racial imagination
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400833221?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400833221
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400833221.jpg
ER  -