The Scottsboro Boys in Their Own Words

Selected Letters, 1931-1950

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2014
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-7204-8 (ISBN)

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This is a collection of letters written by the nine African American defendants in the infamous March 1931 Scottsboro, Alabama, rape case. Though most of the defendants were barely literate and all were teenagers when incarcerated, over the course of almost two decades in prison they learned the rudiments of effective letter writing and in doing so forcefully expressed a wide range of perspectives on the falsity of the charges against them as their incarceration became a cause celebre both in the United States and internationally.

Central to this book is the chronologically structured presentation of letters (1931-1950), including some correspondence from attorneys and members of Scottsboro support committees. The original grammar, syntax and vernacular of the defendants are maintained in a desire to preserve the authenticity of these letters.

Kwando M. Kinshasa is a professor of African American Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1: Letters from 1931: Establishing the Legal Ground

2: Letters from 1932: Counselors for the Wise

3: Letters from 1933: Clash of Concerns

4: Letters from 1934: Scottsboro Mothers

5: Letters from 1935: Black Jurors Wanted

6: Letters from 1936: Psychology of Oppression

7: Letters from 1937: Four Down, Five to Go

8: Letters from 1938: Jail Rot

9: Letters from 1939: To be Free, and Then What

10: Letters from 1940: Pushed to the Limits

11: Letters from 1941: Dear Miss Hester Huntington

12: Letters from 1942: The ILD Way

13: Letters from 1943: Reaching Outward

14: Letters from 1944: To Be Paroled or Not

15: Letters from 1945: Patterson’s Burden

16: Letters from 1946: Andy Wright’s Return

17: Letters from 1947: The Cost of Parole

18: Letters from 1948: Patterson’s Guile

19: Letters from 1950: Andy’s Walk

Postscript

Appendices

deleteA. Report of the “Traveling Salesman”

deleteB. Kilby State Prison

deleteC. The Death of Janie Patterson

deleteD. Death Warrant of Haywood Patterson

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.3.2014
Zusatzinfo	7 photos, appendices, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-10	0-7864-7204-9 / 0786472049
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-7204-8 / 9780786472048
Zustand	Neuware