ScottsboroBy: Ellen Feldman
Published in New York, W. W. Norton, 2008
Alice Whittier, an ambitious, young and the only woman journalist in The New Order; in New York City, flew to Alabama to cover the case of innocent nine African-American young men accused of raping two white women in a train. A case, in 1931, that tried and sentenced eight to death and one 13 year old to prison in four days by a white only jury. With her passion and social conscience she ended up fighting to save them. The case appeal, the protesters in the North, American communist party with Alice research on the background of Ruby Bates, one of the accusers, who was changing her story, made this fictional story put back on life the case of Scottsboro Boys. will she be able to make Ruby to tell the truth in a racist and sexist culture of Alabama?
Published in New York, W. W. Norton, 2008
Alice Whittier, an ambitious, young and the only woman journalist in The New Order; in New York City, flew to Alabama to cover the case of innocent nine African-American young men accused of raping two white women in a train. A case, in 1931, that tried and sentenced eight to death and one 13 year old to prison in four days by a white only jury. With her passion and social conscience she ended up fighting to save them. The case appeal, the protesters in the North, American communist party with Alice research on the background of Ruby Bates, one of the accusers, who was changing her story, made this fictional story put back on life the case of Scottsboro Boys. will she be able to make Ruby to tell the truth in a racist and sexist culture of Alabama?
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