Accused! : the trials of the Scottsboro boys, lies, prejudice, and the fourteenth amendment /
by Brimner, Larry Dane [author.].
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BookPublisher: Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights, [2019]Edition: First edition.Description: 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1629797758 :.Subject(s): Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931 -- Juvenile literature | Racism -- United States -- Juvenile literature | African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Juvenile literatureSummary: This chilling and harrowing account tells the story of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African-American teenagers who, when riding the rails during the Great Depression, found their lives destroyed after two white women falsely accused them of rape. Award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner explains how it took more than eighty years for their wrongful convictions to be overturned.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-181) and index.
School Library Journal, November 01, 2019
Booklist, September 01, 2019
Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 2019
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, November 01, 2019
This chilling and harrowing account tells the story of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African-American teenagers who, when riding the rails during the Great Depression, found their lives destroyed after two white women falsely accused them of rape. Award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner explains how it took more than eighty years for their wrongful convictions to be overturned.
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