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Title Accused! : the trials of the Scottsboro Boys: lies, prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment / Larry Dane Brimner.
Author Brimner, Larry Dane, author.
Publisher Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights, [2019]
Copyright ©2019
Description 189 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm
Edition First edition.
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 SI-Upper Level  345.761 BRIM Nearby on shelf  30661912101923 04-08-23  AVAILABLE
 SM-Upper Level  345.761 BRIM  30660913102138 03-11-20  AVAILABLE
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This chilling and harrowing account tells the story of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African-American teenagers who, when riding the rails during the Great Depression, found their lives destroyed after two white women falsely accused them of rape. Award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner explains how it took more than eighty years for their wrongful convictions to be overturned.
Awards Sibert Medal.
Subject United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment.
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931.
Trials (Rape) -- Alabama -- Scottsboro.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
Genre Young adult literature.
Other title Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: lies, prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment
ISBN 9781629797755
1629797758