Word: scottsboros
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...roaring cold morning in Scottsboro, Ala. when a truck full of "bad niggers" snorted through the streets and slithered out on an icy road north from town. Scottsboro whites knew they were "bad niggers" because heavy steel mesh sheathed the sides of the truck and its back door was locked. "Good nigger'' convicts going out to work the roads ride in ordinary trucks, not cages...
...make the boys of Scottsboro clean and free...
...April 1935, Congress appropriated four billion dollars for work relief, and the word "boondoggling'' rushed headlong into the U. S. vocabulary. Same month, the U. S. Supreme Court again overruled the Alabama courts on the Scottsboro case, finding that since Negroes had been "systematically excluded'' from the jury rolls, the defendants had been deprived of their rights under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. Governor Bibb Graves firmly declared: ''Alabama is going to observe the supreme law of America...
...last week, when the Scottsboro affair was ending its fifth year and beginning its fourth trial scene, the accused Negroes had long since ceased to be a handful of friendless vagrants. Instead they had become black symbols of economic bitterness, race prejudice, sectional hatred and political conflict. To the Communist Party of the U. S., which had rushed to the Negroes' side with cash & counsel, the Scottsboro Boys were martyrs to Southern injustice and intolerance. To Southerners, the defendants were a gang of "bad niggers" whose crime was being brazenly exploited by malicious Reds, Jews and Yankees. Responsible Southern...
...live man is better off than a dead one, and since Haywood Patterson will probably be safer behind bars for the next few years anyhow, the defense could count the verdict something of a triumph. In fairly good spirits Counsel Leibowitz was proceeding with the case of another Scottsboro boy when the prosecution suddenly challenged written medical testimony made at the second trial by a physician now too ill to go to court and substantiate it orally. Thereupon Judge Callahan indefinitely postponed all further trials, ordered the prisoners back to jail in Birmingham...