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book was tough to read, The injustice, the hate, the blatant racism, and complete disregard of basic human rights and fundamental freedoms that we take for granted everyday.
My heart broke for these boys/men with every chapter,
As far as the quality of the book it is stellar, Thoroughly detailed and clearly explains from all angles why things happened the way that they did.
I appreciated the fact that the book is not onesided and only taking the view of the Scottsboro boys or of the Southerners.
It helps to understand exactly what happened so that history does not repeat itself, That being said it is a lot of information to absorb making the book feel very heavy at times.
I had to stop to take breaks,
I found myself constantly thinking of the Central Park Six if you are not familiar with the case please look it up The Scottsboro case started in, the Central Park Five case started in, a more thanyear difference and little has changed regarding Due Process and Discrimination with Americans in the judicial system.
We need books like this to remind people that our struggle is not over, we must keep fighting for our rights.
I look forward to the day when there is no longer a need to fight because they are guaranteed.
Communists, drifters, Jews, good ole' boys, carpetbaggers and their battle over the fates of nine young black men dragged off a train in Paint Rock, Albama, accused of rape, and sentenced to death.
In a series of legal battles that would drag on for decades, the Scottsboro Boys's cases bounced up and down through the courts, twice being heard by the United States Supreme Court.


Weaving the tale together through an unimaginable amount of research, Goodman presents the stories through the eyes of all the involved parties.
The book comes at the trials from a number of different angles, converging around the questions of race, justice, equity, and criminal procedure all of which were bent, twisted, and molded in disgusting ways.


A long and detailed read that would be well worth it for anyone deeply interested in the deep south or interested in taking a glimpse of just how egregious miscarriages of justice are carried out, right in front of our faces.
It took me ages to read this book, Not because it wasn't good but because I could only read a few chapters at a time before all the racism and injustice made me so angry I had to walk away from the book.
The story itself is very compelling but it is so tragic I just can't say I enjoyed it.
Books like this are so important to read though because even though we have come a long way fromwe have not gone far enough.
Switching to nonfiction for a bit this was a text from a law school class that I particularly enjoyed.



Took a long time to get through it was very dense but very rewarding.
Goodman describes, in fascinating detail, the various social and economic factors that led to such a horrific miscarriage of justice.
You are still left wondering how people could do this to other innocent human beings, but after going

through Goodman's analysis you can at least begin to explain how it could happen.
Many Southerners in Alabama, for example, were stunned at the outcry after the first sham of a trial, as they felt they deserved to be commended for conducting an "orderly" trial and preventing a lynching.


I found the discussions relating to the different motives and tactics of the NAACP and the Communist Party, and the struggle for control of the case, to be particularly valuable.
The Communists, who were already outsiders, weren't concerned about public opinion, saw the entire justice system as rotten to the core, and acted accordingly.
The NAACP, by contrast, was more concerned with acceptance, and looked to bring about institutional change.


Another really enlightening narrative was how the Southern politicians who were mostly prolabor FDR Democrats could be so stunningly obtuse on matters of criminal justice and basic human rights for minorities.
In today's society, we traditionally associate progressive, leftleaning prolabor and egalitarian movements with civil rights causes, but this book shows pretty clearly that it wasn't always that way.


Small criticism would be that the lastpages or so felt rushed, like Goodman was just cramming in the "where are they now" details to wrap up the narrative.
While it was poignant to see how most of the Scottsboro Nine never recovered from their ordeal, the recap lacks the analysis that made the beginning of the book so compelling.
Overall, though, highly recommended. This is a very powerful book, in which the author looks at different points of view the boys who grew to be men during their time in jail, the judges, the attorneys, the NAACP, the Communists, the two accusers, the different groups of people in Alabama.
Read in the light of the murders of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis, one realizes how far, in some ways, we still have to go.
A haunting tale but I did not like the way it was written, It definitely tells the story from every perspective, but it was choppy and confusing at times.
History of the events leading up to Powell v Alabama, The author explores the different "stories," i, e. version of the event from different points of view, Page turner so far. a heartbreaking story about a group of boys involved in a so called crime when they werent.
It was a she said he said case, They were blamed for a crime they didnt do, They were charged brutally. Even the youngest was charged strongly,such a sad story read for a big research project about the Decatur retrials of the Scottsboro Boys, has a lot of information but just not really about what I was looking for!! would recommend as a source on the Scottsboro boys for someone who doesnt know much already.
An incredibly thorough account of one of the biggest frameups in American judicial history, Disheartening to read, but also incredibly interesting to read as Goodman illustrates the racist forces, NorthSouth divide, anticommunist fears, and political considerations that influenced this case that lasted from the beginning of the Civil Rights movement until the end.
A remarkable effort to retell the Scottsboro saga from multiple perspectives, Each chapter is written from the viewpoint of a different party to the tragedy, The effect is to humanize every party, and thereby to render the horrors of the trial and incarcerations all the more tragic, offensive and shameful.
Excellent chronicle of some of the darkest days in our nation's history, Difficult reading at times. "A rich and compelling narrative, as taut and suspenseful as good fiction, In places, Stories of Scottsboro is almost heartbreaking, not least because Goodman shows what people felt as well as what they thought.
" Washington Post Book World

To white Southerners, it was "a heinous and unspeakable crime" that flouted a taboo as old as slavery.
To the Communist Party, which mounted the defense, the Scottsboro case was an ideal opportunity to unite issues of race and class.
To jury after jury, the idea that nine black men had raped two white women on a train traveling through northern Alabama inwas so selfevident that they found the Scottsboro boys guilty even after the U.
S. Supreme Court had twice struck down the verdict and one of the "victims" had recanted,

This innovative and grippingly narrated work of history tells the story of a case that marked a watershed in American racial justice.
Or, rather, it tells several stories, For out of dozens of period sources, Stories of Scottsboro recreates not only what happened at Scottsboro, but the dissonant chords it struck in the hearts and minds of an entire nation.


"Extraordinary . To do justice to the Scottsboro story a book would have to combine edgeoftheseat reportage and epic narrative sweep.
And it is just such a book that James Goodman has given us, a beautifully realized history.
. . written with complete authority, tight emotional control, and brilliant use of archival material, " Chicago Tribune.