Word: scottsboros
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...into the hard, rotten heart of the Alabama penal system. But in July 1948, Haywood Patterson finally made it. He escaped from Alabama's Kilby prison, crossed the Mason-Dixon line and hid out, a fugitive, an almost forgotten speck on the national conscience-the eighth of the Scottsboro Boys to get out of jail...
...calloused and bitter 35, a veteran of years of prison brutality and evil, and possessed of the one-track eloquence of a man who had pondered his grievances for 17 years. He had also come to believe that his truest friends were the Communists, who had exploited the Scottsboro case for their own ends...
...WORLEY Scottsboro...
...Communist Party and the party-line Civil Rights Congress went to their rescue with rallies, demonstrations and screaming Daily Worker headlines calling it "a northern Scottsboro case." Non-Communist liberal groups joined in, and the case was carried to New Jersey's highest court...
Arrested in Brooklyn, N.Y., for annoying a woman in a subway, one Willie Roberson was discovered to be one of the Scottsboro boys. He was convicted of disorderly conduct, given 90 days in the workhouse...