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"The Scottsboro Boys" meet with their attorney Samuel Leibowitz
The 1931 Scottsboro Trials
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A Trial Account
..by Douglas O. Linder  (c) 1999 
No crime in American history-- let alone a crime that never occurred-- produced as many trials, convictions, reversals, and retrials as did an alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers on the Southern Railroad freight run from Chattanooga to Memphis on March 25, 1931.  Over the course of the next two decades, the struggle for justice of the "Scottsboro Boys," as the black teens were called, made celebrities out of anonymities, launched and ended careers, wasted lives and produced heroes, opened southern juries to blacks, exacerbated sectional strife, and divided America's political....(CONT.->)

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