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[2019]., Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights Call No: HI-INT 345.7 BRI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 1931, nine teenagers were arrested as they traveled on a train through Scottsboro, Alabama. The youngest was thirteen, and all had been hoping to find something better at the end of their journey. But they never arrived. Instead, two white women falsely accused them of rape. The effects were catastrophic for the young men, who came to be known as the Scottsboro Boys. Being accused of raping a white woman in the Jim Crow south almost certainly meant death, either by a lynch mob or the electric chair. The Scottsboro boys found themselves facing one prejudiced trial after another, in one of the worst miscarriages of justice in U.S. history. They also faced a racist legal system, all-white juries, and the death penalty. Noted Sibert Medalist Larry Dane Brimner uncovers how the Scottsboro Boys spent years in Alabama's prison system, enduring inhumane conditions and torture. The extensive back matter includes an author's note, bibliography, index, and further resources and source notes"--From the publisher's web site.
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2006., Lucent Books / Thomson Gale Call No: 973.923 CUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Crime scene investigationsSummary Note: Learn about the church bombings in the 1960s.
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[2016], William Morrow Call No: 364.13 4 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Explores the true story of the trial of Henry Hays, member of Klavern 900 of the Ku Klux Klan, who in 1981 murdered nineteen-year-old Michael Donald, a black man, and hung his body in a racially mixed neighborhood--Hays way of protesting a recent court decision where a black man was not convicted for killing a white cop. Morris Dees, cofounder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, took the case against Hays, at the time said to be impossible to win, and won anyway, getting Hays the death penalty and succeeding in bringing a civil suit for the first time ever against the Klan and winning.
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The man from Scottsboro : Clarence Norris and the infamous 1931 Alabama Rape Trial, in his own words2003., McFarland & Co Inc Pub Call No: 347.73 KIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A description of Clarence Norris's arrest, trial and sentencing, including letters to his family, attorneys and supporters. Includes a 1980 interview with Norris, contemporary newspaper accounts of the trial, articles by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfruter and elgal opinions of the defendants' attorney.
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-- New York Times versus Sullivan1999., Enslow Call No: 347.73 FIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Landmark Supreme Court casesSummary Note: Describes the Supreme Court decision in the case of New York Times v. Sullivan, preventing public officials from receiving damages for false statements unless they can prove actual malice.
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-- New York Times versus Sullivanc1999., Juvenile, Enslow Publishers Call No: 342.73 0853 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Landmark Supreme Court casesSummary Note: Describes the Supreme Court decision in the case of New York Times v. Sullivan, preventing public officials from receiving damages for false statements unless they can prove actual malice.
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1997., Juvenile, Franklin Watts Call No: 347.73 HOR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Historic Supreme Court casesSummary Note: This book tells the story of Ozie Powell and eight other Scottsboro Boys who were arrested in March 1931, tried and convicted despite a lack of evidence. The case described the overturning of the conviction and death sentence because Powell had been denied effective counsel at trial.
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2004., Rosen Pub. Group Call No: Civil Rights NF SOR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great trials of the 20th century.Summary Note: Documents the events that led up to the trial of nine black boys accused of raping two white girls, and the effects of that trial on society.
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2004., Rosen Publishing Group Call No: 347.73 SOR Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Series Title: Great trials of the twentieth centurySummary Note: Using original photos and documents this book describes the rape trial of nine men outlined in Powell v. Alabama, Patterson v. Alabama and Norris v. Alabama.
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2004., Pre-adolescent, World Almanac Library Call No: 347.73 USC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Landmark events in American historySummary Note: Discusses the legal case in which nine African American men were falsely accused of rape, the trials and appeals thereafter, and the historical background regarding the lack of civil and legal rights for African Americans.
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[2005]., PBS Home Video Call No: Civil Rights DVD Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In March 1931, two white women stepped from a boxcar in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. The trials of the nine young men would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the civil rights movement."--Container.
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p2006., General, Recorded Books Call No: CD Fic Lee Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days come to an end when a black man in town is accused of raping a white woman, and her father is the only man willing to defend him.
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[2018]., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: 741.5 LEE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
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[2018]., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: GN FIC LEE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Scout Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the 1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the rape of a white girl.
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c2015., Yæollin Ch'aektæul Call No: WORLD LANGUAGES FIC LEE Edition: 880-02 Chop'an. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
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By Lee, Harper2010., HarperLuxe Call No: Class Set FIC LEE Edition: 1st HarperLuxe ed, [50th anniversary ed.]. Availability:6 of 6 At Location(s)
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2005., University of Alabama Press Call No: 973.923 SIK Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Fire ant booksSummary Note: An account of the 1963 KKK bombing of a church in Birmingham in which four African-American girls were killed, discussing the FBI's failure to solve the crime, and examining the efforts of Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley to win justice--finally convicting one man in 1977.
