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Scottsboro Book

It is Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting with white boys. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, and fast as anyone can say Jim Crow, the cry of rape goes up. One of the girls sticks to her story. The other changes her tune, again and again. A young journalist, whose only connection to the incident is her overheated social conscience, fights to save the nine youths from the electric chair, redeem the girl who repents her lie, and make amends for her own past.Intertwining historical actors and fictional characters, stirring racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism into an explosive brew, "Scottsboro" is a novel of a shocking injustice that convulsed the nation and reverberated around the world, destroyed lives, forged careers, and brought out the worst and the best in the men and women who fought for the cause. 'Feldman suggests that though the past will always be there, it's not fixed like the timeline history taught at school, nor impermeable to the present ...This is a brave novel in the strongest sense of the word, carefully treading mined terrain to thought-provoking and memorable effect' - "Observer".Read More

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  • 033045613X
  • 9780330456135
  • Ellen Feldman
  • 6 June 2008
  • Picador
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 368
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