Accused!, the trials of the Scottsboro Boys: lies, prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment, Larry Dane Brimner
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Accused!, the trials of the Scottsboro Boys: lies, prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment, Larry Dane Brimner
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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non fiction
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Accused!
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Larry Dane Brimner
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the trials of the Scottsboro Boys: lies, prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment
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This chilling and harrowing account tells the story of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African-American teenagers who, when riding the rails during the Great Depression, found their lives destroyed after two white women falsely accused them of rape. Award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner explains how it took more than eighty years for their wrongful convictions to be overturned
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adolescent
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Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: lies, prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment
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