The Scottsboro Boys Trial: A Primary Source AccountThis book uses primary source documents to show the background of hoboing and riding the rails during the Depression in America, and how this culture lead to the false arrest of black teenagers for the rape of two white women on the train. The use of court transcripts brings to life the many trials and retrials of the boys, the verdicts, the message these verdicts carried, and the impact this significant trial had on our history and culture. |
