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From Scottsboro to Decatur (1933)
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This chapter details the author's travel to Decatur to report about the trial of the Scottsboro boys. This trial demonstrated the making of the history of Black Americans: the fight for jury service and for equalization of rights. There was talk of a meeting in Decatur, like the one held in Birmingham, that broke the Jim Crow rulings to protest in favor of the Scottsboro boys. However, nothing was done about that meeting. The chapter recounts how the author was arrested for associating with Black reporters, and for the fact that she carried in her suitcase “Calls to Action” for the Conference on Negro Student Problems to be held at Columbia University.
Title: From Scottsboro to Decatur (1933)
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This chapter details the author's travel to Decatur to report about the trial of the Scottsboro boys.
This trial demonstrated the making of the history of Black Americans: the fight for jury service and for equalization of rights.
There was talk of a meeting in Decatur, like the one held in Birmingham, that broke the Jim Crow rulings to protest in favor of the Scottsboro boys.
However, nothing was done about that meeting.
The chapter recounts how the author was arrested for associating with Black reporters, and for the fact that she carried in her suitcase “Calls to Action” for the Conference on Negro Student Problems to be held at Columbia University.
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