OppressionMarch 25, 1931
The Scottsboro Boys
Nine Black teenagers are falsely accused of rape in Alabama, a landmark of Jim Crow injustice.
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Connections to other moments, systems, and investigations — the links rarely drawn together.
- part of·ThreadPolicing & the Courts: Instruments of Control
All-white juries and a rigged court turned the law into an instrument of caste.