Word: scottsboro
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...mounting sense of desperation--brilliantly conveyed by the transcribers' development of nostalgically historical motifs. Three and four times over they go back to Nixon's prosecution of Alger Hiss, and three times they go even further, to the days when "the Communist front raised a million dollars for the Scottsboro people," when "nine hundred thousand went into the pockets of the Communists...
...COURSE there were other organizations involved in the defense, most noticeably the Communist Party, and there seems to have been some friction, particularly with the CPUSA. "They wanted to sellher out, just like they did with the Scottsboro boys," says an SCLC old timer. "But we wouldn't let them...
...1930s, Stander helped organize the Screen Actors Guild, raised money for the Spanish Loyalists, fought for release of the Scottsboro boys. "I was branded a nigger-loving Communist and every other red spot you can mention," he says. "I didn't work again for a major studio...
...interesting "goop" to study under the microscope. He put himself through Columbia University with a variety of odd jobs, including researching medieval coinage for an economics teacher. He graduated in 1937 with honors in zoology and a faith in the liberal causes of the time, such as the Scottsboro boys and the Spanish Loyalists. Bright and ambitious, he went to Harvard, closeted himself in a laboratory for three years, and left with a Ph.D. in biology...
...Powell v. Alabama (1932) ordered states for the first time to provide law yers for indigent defendants in capital cases. Although Ozie Powell, 16, and six other Negro youths, who came to be known as the "Scottsboro Boys," had no legal aid, they had been sentenced to death for allegedly raping two white girl hoboes. Though one of the girls totally recanted her testimony, Alabama later reconvicted the boys as many as four times, eventually meting out sentences of up to 99 years. Ozie Powell was paroled...