In 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.
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