James E. Goodman
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James E. Goodman
In 1931, outside the town of Scottsboro, Alabama, nine black youths were charged with the rape of two white women. The case became a cause celebre that shocked America, reawakened the struggle for racial equality, and led finally to two landmark Supreme Court decisions.
In this powerful retelling of the Scottsboro case, James Goodman, an assistant professor of history at Harvard, sets out to answer the question “what happened?” by moving from one point of view to another—the defendants, the two white women, the Communist Party who would shoulder the costs of…
