Scottsboro
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: W. W. Norton; W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: April 21, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780393064902
Subjects: Literature: Texts; Historical - General; Fiction / General; General; Fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction - Historical
Description: Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting with white boys. When two white girls emerge from another freight car, the cry of rape goes up. One of the girls sticks to her story. The other changes her tune, again and again. Told through the eyes of a young journalist who fights to save the nine youths from the electric chair, Scottsboro is a novel of a shocking injustice that convulsed the nation and reverberated around the world.