Scottsboro : a novel / Ellen Feldman
- Bib ID:
- 4609734
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Feldman, Ellen, 1941-
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2008
- 363 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780393064902
- 0393064905
- Summary:
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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 fights to rescue the nine youths from the electric chair, redeem the girl who repents her lie, and make amends for her own past. Intertwining historical figures with fictional characters and stirring racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism into an explosive brew, Scottsboro is a novel of a case and a cause that roiled the nation for almost half a century. No crime in American history, let alone a crime that never occurred, resulted in as many trials, convictions, reversals, and seminal Supreme Court decisions. It destroyed lives, forged careers, and brought out the best - and the worst - in the men and women who fought for the cause."--BOOK JACKET.
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