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 ...

Lin Shi Khan and Tony Perez The Scottsboro case is one of the best-known legal battles in the history of the United States. It is important for the two Supreme Court decisions it produced as well ...

THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS is the last collaboration of Broadway songwriting legends John Kander and Fred Ebb. Based on the notorious 'Scottsboro' case in the 1930s (in which nine African-American men ...

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.

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 ...

The case inspired songs, books and films. A Broadway musical was staged in 2010, the same year a museum dedicated to the case opened in Scottsboro.

When they’re handing out the Tony Awards on Sunday there will be an elite cheering section for “The Scottsboro Boys” on the South Side. Thanks to an enthusiastic school librarian … ...

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.

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.