Vineyard Theatre and Barnes & Noble Booksellers to present panel discussion 'The Scottsboro Boys: A Conversation About the Case and Its Legacy' Sunday, February 28 at 6:30 pm Union Square Barnes ...

So they want the Scottsboro case — the first one under a law allowing posthumous pardons ... Carter called his affidavit "a reiteration of what I said in my book in 1970," such as an ...

The Scottsboro Boys were headline news around the country in 1931, but today, most Americans have never heard about the nine Black teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women aboard a ...

Based on the notorious 'Scottsboro' case in the 1930s (in which nine African-American men were unjustly accused of a terrible crime) this musical explores a fascinating chapter in American history.

Books, plays and poems were written about the plight of the defendants. There were years of appeals - some successful, ... But in Scottsboro, the case soon faded into the background.

Attorney Samuel Leibowitz, confers with seven of the defendants in the Scottsboro rape case in 1935 in Alabama. Thursday, a judge pardoned the remaining three men who hadn't already been pardoned.

Scottsboro has been the subject of several major books, including Stories of Scottsboro: The Rape Case that Shocked 1930s America and Revived the Struggle for Equality (1994), by Harvard professor ...

Actor Joshua Henry admits he didn’t know much about the Scottsboro defendants before auditioning to play one of them in the musical “The Scottsboro Boys.” But the scenes he received to ...

User Clip: Scottsboro Cases. 2011-09-17T22:49:11-04:00 https: ... Linda Lear and Paul Driessen talked about the impact of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring.

The Scottsboro Defense Committee (SDC) is formed with Allan Knight Chalmers as chairman, and a local attorney, Clarence Watts, is named co-counsel. Courtesy: Morgan County Archives 1936 ...

Joshua Henry reprises his Tony-nominated role in the musical from John Kander and Fred Ebb, which revisits a chilling episode in U.S. history.