Beschreibung:
"Readers will find riveting new perspectives on one of the most important cases in our national history. I have read many books on Scottsboro, but until I read this one, I had no idea of the many and varied representations of this case."--Mary Helen Washington, University of Maryland
List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE: Framing the Scottsboro Boys 7 CHAPTER TWO: "Scottsboro, Too": The Writer as Witness 52 CHAPTER THREE: Staging Scottsboro 85 CHAPTER FOUR: Fictional Scottsboros 118 CHAPTER FIVE: Richard Wright's Scottsboro of the Imagination 143 CHAPTER SIX: The Scottsboro Defendant as Proto-Revolutionary: Haywood Patterson 169 CHAPTER SEVEN: Cold War Scottsboros 197 CHAPTER EIGHT: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: The Final Stage of the Scottsboro Narrative 220 Epilogue 235 Notes 243 Bibliography 263 Index 275