Scottsboro - Ellen Feldman
Scottsboro - Ellen Feldman In Alabama, 1931, a posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, and as fast as anyone can say Jim Crow,…
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Scottsboro - Ellen Feldman
In Alabama, 1931, a posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, and as fast as anyone can say Jim Crow, the cry of rape goes up. Their crime: fighting with white boys.
The other changes her tune, again and again. One of the girls sticks to her story. A young journalist, whose only connection to the incident is her overheated social conscience, fights to save the nine youths from the electric chair, redeem the girl who repents her lie, and make amends for her own past.
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