Scottsboro, Alabama: A Story in Linoleum Cuts

by Tony Pérez and Lin Shi Khan

Book Overview

A unique graphic history of one of the most controversial legal decisions of all time--with 118 powerful linoleum prints In 1931, nine black youths were falsely accused of raping two white women on a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814751768
• ISBN13: 9780814751763
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.6" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

A Marvelous Discovery

With the Broadway play "The Scottsboro Boys" opening in New York in October of 2010,this is a marvelous discovery which this book beautifully brings to light. It will expand your understanding of the issues involved in the historic cases from a contemporary viewpoint and it will give you a new appreciation for the beginnings of the civil rights movement in America.