In 1931, an all-white jury sentenced nine black boys, accused of raping two white women, to death, despite testimony by doctors that no rape had occurred. The verdict triggered a major civil rights controversy, and was overturned by two Supreme Court decisions in the following years.

Titles in this Collection:

A Plea for Clemency In Scottsboro Negro Case By Woll, Mathew
A Southern Welcome By Lawson, John Howard
Eight Who Lie in the Death House By Peters, Paul
Four Free, five in prison, on the same evidence: what the nation's press says about the Scottsboro Case By Various
Lynching Negro Children in Southern Courts: (The Scottsboro Case) By North, Joseph
Mr. President: Free the Scottsboro Boys By Various
Scottsboro: A record of a Broken Promise By Various
Scottsboro: Act Three By Small, Sasha
Scottsboro: The Shame of America By Various
Smash the Scottsboro Lynch Verdict By Allen, James S.
The Scottsboro Boys By Herndon, Angelo
The Scottsboro Case By Alabama Circuit Court
The South Comes North By Haywood, Harry
The Story of Scottsboro By Schneider, Isidor
They Shall Not Die! The Story of Scottsboro in Picture: Stop the Legal Lynching By Various