Remembering Scottsboro : the legacy of an infamous trial

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Remembering Scottsboro : the legacy of an infamous trial

James A. Miller

Princeton University Press, c2009

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Bibliography: p. [263]-274

Includes index

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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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List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE: Framing the Scottsboro Boys 7 CHAPTER TWO: "Scottsboro, Too": The Writer as Witness 52 CHAPTER THREE: Staging Scottsboro 85 CHAPTER FOUR: Fictional Scottsboros 118 CHAPTER FIVE: Richard Wright's Scottsboro of the Imagination 143 CHAPTER SIX: The Scottsboro Defendant as Proto-Revolutionary: Haywood Patterson 169 CHAPTER SEVEN: Cold War Scottsboros 197 CHAPTER EIGHT: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: The Final Stage of the Scottsboro Narrative 220 Epilogue 235 Notes 243 Bibliography 263 Index 275

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