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Scottsboro

Ellen Feldman

3.91/5 (548 ratings)

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Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting with white boys. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, and fast as anyone can say Jim Crow, the cry of rape goes up. One of the girls sticks to her story. The other changes her tune, again and again. A young journalist, whose only connection to the incident is her overheated social conscience, fights to save the nine youths from the electric chair, redeem the girl who repents her lie, and make amends for her own past. Intertwining historical actors and fictional characters, stirring racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism into an explosive brew, Scottsboro is a novel of a shocking injustice that convulsed the nation and reverberated around the world, destroyed lives, forged careers, and brought out the worst and the best in the men and women who fought for the cause.

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Pages:: 363 pages

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Publisher:: W. W. Norton Company

Edition:: 1st, First Edition

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ISBN10:: 0393064905

ISBN13:: 9780393064902

kindle Asin:: B00421BN04

Scottsboro

Ellen Feldman

3.91/5 (548 ratings)

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Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting with white boys. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, and fast as anyone can say Jim Crow, the cry of rape goes up. One of the girls sticks to her story. The other changes her tune, again and again. A young journalist, whose only connection to the incident is her overheated social conscience, fights to save the nine youths from the electric chair, redeem the girl who repents her lie, and make amends for her own past. Intertwining historical actors and fictional characters, stirring racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism into an explosive brew, Scottsboro is a novel of a shocking injustice that convulsed the nation and reverberated around the world, destroyed lives, forged careers, and brought out the worst and the best in the men and women who fought for the cause.

Format:

Pages:: 363 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: W. W. Norton Company

Edition:: 1st, First Edition

Language:

ISBN10:: 0393064905

ISBN13:: 9780393064902

kindle Asin:: B00421BN04

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