The Scottsboro Nine’s case, however, became a moment showing that despite their status as outsiders, black Americans could carry their calls for justice across the nation and around the globe.

The case of the Scottsboro Boys provided an unforgettable window into the South’s brutal system of justice — and how it failed Black Americans. In 1931, the ACLU released its “Black Justice” report.

Pressure from his community, and his defeat in this case, causes Watts to fall ill, leaving Leibowitz to lead the defense. July 20-21: The trial of Andy Wright ends in conviction and a sentence of ...

Crash, crash! went two windows in the U. S. consulate at Dresden. Plump fell a bottle on the consulate's floor. While young German Communists hooted and whistled outside, an American clerk ...

I n the famed case of the Scottsboro Boys, the original charge was rape in a freight gondola, the ultimate issue was Alabama justice. Of the nine Negroes accused, four were acquitted, four ...

When I was in graduate school, my classmates and I, observing how small the world of academic history could be, joked about starting a journal. We would call it The New York Review of Our Own ...

Pressure from his community, and his defeat in this case, causes Watts to fall ill, leaving Leibowitz to lead the defense. July 20-21: The trial of Andy Wright ends in conviction and a sentence of ...

The case of nine young African American men accused of the rape of two white women in the town of Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931, was a milestone in the emergence of a national civil rights movement. It ...