Description 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.
In 1931, nine teenagers were arrested as they traveled on a train through Scottsboro.
Award-winning author Larry Dane Brimner explains how it took more than eighty years for their wrongful convictions to be overturned.
Description 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
