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The Scottsboro Trials: 1931-37

Suggestions For Further Reading



Carter, Dan T. Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969.

Chalmers, Allan Knight. They Shall Be Free. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1951.

Crenshaw, Files and Kenneth A. Miller. Scottsboro: The Firebrand of Communism. Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Printing Co., 1936.

Hays, Arthur Garfield. Trial by Prejudice. New York: Covici, Friede Publishers, 1933.

Jordan, J. Glenn. The Unpublished Inside Story of the Infamous Scottsboro Case. Huntsville, Ala.: White Printing Co., 1932.

Nash, Jay Robert. Encyclopedia of World Crime. Wilmette, Ill.: CrimeBooks, Inc., 1990.

Patterson, Haywood. Scottsboro Boy. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1950.

Reynolds, Quentin. Courtroom (biography of Samuel Liebowitz). New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1950.

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Law Library - American Law and Legal InformationNotable Trials and Court Cases - 1918 to 1940The Scottsboro Trials: 1931-37 - "legal Lynching … Victims Of 'capitalist Justice", "you Can't Mix Politics With Law"