Stories of Scottsboro

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James Goodman

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Vintage Books
28 March 1995

History of the Americas

From the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of But Where Is the Lamb? comes a grippingly narrated work of history and ""edge-of-the-seat reportage"" (Chicago Tribune) that tells the story of a case that marked a watershed in American racial justice.

To white Southerners, it was ""a heinous and unspeakable crime"" that flouted a taboo as old as slavery. To the Communist Party, which mounted the defense, the Scottsboro case was an ideal opportunity to unite issues of race and class. To jury after jury, the idea that nine black men had raped two white women on a train traveling through northern Alabama in 1931 was so self-evident that they found the Scottsboro boys guilty even after the U.S. Supreme Court had twice struck down the verdict and one of the ""victims"" had recanted.

This innovative work tells several stories. For out of dozens of period sources, Stories of Scottsboro re-creates not only what happened at Scottsboro, but the dissonant chords it struck in the hearts and minds of an entire nation.

By: James Goodman
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 204mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 477g
ISBN: 9780679761594
ISBN 10: 0679761594
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 28 March 1995
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

JAMES GOODMANis the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of But Where Is the Lamb? Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac, Blackout, and Stories of Scottsboro. He has received fellowships and awards from NYU, Princeton, Rutgers, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the US editor of the journal Rethinking History andis a professor at Rutgers University, where he teaches history and creative writing. He lives in New York.

Reviews for Stories of Scottsboro

-This gripping book does much more than tell the story of Scottsboro with new information and insight. It invents a new way of writing history. Like a kaleidoscope, the author rotates the stories told by various participants in that cause of the 1930s, causing new patterns to emerge until they take a form we can call truth.---James M. McPherson