International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Through the history, conflicts are always the cause of pain, sorrow and death. Nowadays more are developing for different rationale; colour, religion, race, gender; leaving millions of people to suffer all around the world. Racism has been a hot topic in literature; writers are examining the treatment of various kinds of discrimination as a weapon against hatred and anger.


29 April 2012

Scottsboro
By: 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?

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