Stories of Scottsboro

Scottsdale, Alabama rape case of nine black men accused of raping two white women on a train in 1931 became a watershed in American racial injustice. To white Southerners it was a heinous and unspeakable crime, to the Communist Party that mounted the defense it was a way to unite race and class, and to the court it was an injustice in finding the boys guilty after the Supreme Count twice knocked down the verdict and one victim recanted her story.