Word: scottsboro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Roy Wright, 42. at 13 the youngest of the "Scottsboro boys," whose sensational 1931 trial* became a landmark in the struggle for Negro rights; by his own hand (pistol), after killing his wife in a quarrel; in Manhattan...
Perkins illustrated Hughes' legal career with such examples as his work in the Scottsboro Case and Minnesota Rate Cases. These, he stated, showed how the former Chief Justice "went beyond the legal forms and looked at the facts...
When Koestler described those days in 1953, he apologized, "I found it impossible to revive the naive enthusiasm of the period." This was not Hughes' way. His enthusiasm stayed fresh because it was for people and things, not ideas, which date faster. While he protested violently against the Scottsboro decision and later against Franco's bombing of Madrid, his protest was not a Party member's but always that of an individual. As he was convinced by the discovery of a swank little restaurant in Tashkent: "The system under which the succesful live--left or right, capitalist or communist...
...sent his Reporter Ted Poston, a Negro, to Montgomery, Ala. for a series on the plight of the Negro there. But, as Poston's series made plain in the Post last week, there was no cause for alarm. Reporter Poston, 49, who was roughed up while covering the Scottsboro case in 1933, explored the city of the 6½-month-old Negro bus boycott for three weeks and found no danger, little tension-and plenty of help and hospitality from his white colleagues on the Montgomery Advertiser...
This is to be regretted, because the significance of the Till case could not have been much clearer to Mr. Halberstam if he had been familiar with the Scottsboro case of the 1930's, when nine men were railroaded to death and to jail, and almost nothing of the furor of the Till case was heard...