Easton Press: SCOTTSBORO: NINE AFRICAN AMERICANS ON TRIAL FOR RAPE: 1931

Description: Easton Press leather edition of Dan T. Carter's "Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South," a COLLECTOR'S edition, Frontispiece Illustration, published in 1995. Bound in brown leather, the book has marbled paper end leaves, a satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. COLLECTOR'S NOTES is included. Ron T. Carter, who was born in 1940 in Florence, South Carolina, received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. On March 25, 1931, a sheriff's posse, looking for the participants in an alleged brawl, searched a Memphis-bound freight train stopped near Scottsboro, Alabama. They apprehended a group of hoboes consisting of nine black teenage males, one white male, and two white women, Ruby Bates and Victoria Prince. The two women claimed the nine black youth had raped them. In Alabama in 1931, lynching was the standard method of execution for a black man suspected of raping a white women. Medical doctors examined the two women and found no "tearing" or bruising in the vagina area. The doctors found "older semen" but only a "smear" of that. Later, the defense lawyers introduced evidence that the two women were prostitutes and that they had sex with boyfriends the night before the women jumped on the train. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People took an immediate interest in defending the accused rapists. They were assisted b the Communist Party, U.S.A. A prominent legal team from New York was enlisted on behalf of the hoboes. Three different---all-white Alabama juries---found the defendants GUILTY as charged---although the evidence proved they were innocent. Alabamians resented "Jews" and "New Yorkers" exposing their racism and bigotry. There are certainly villains in the Scottsboro case, men like THOMAS KNIGHT, Dr. who manipulated the fears and hatreds of his fellow Alabamians, knowing full well the shoddy nature of the case he so relentlessly prosecuted. The case was further complicated when RUBY BATES admitted that they "Scottsboro Boys" had NOT raped her or Victoria and that the women had made up the story because they feared being arrested for trespassing on the train. Scottsboro was the top news story of the 1930s, with Alabama governors, senators and representative, and President Franklin Roosevelt, and the NAACP all commenting on the case. 479 pages. I offer combined shipping.

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