Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro: A Documentary History

by Walter T. Howard

Overview

Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro, an account of a neglected chapter in the story of the Scottsboro saga, gives voice to a segment of the African American community that has often been ignored or distorted: black Communists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592135974
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	12/07/2007
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Walter T. Howard is Professor of American History at Bloomsburg University in northeastern Pennsylvania and the editor of B.D. Amis, African American Radical: A Short Anthology of His Writings and Speeches. He was awarded The Gustavus Myers Award for Human Rights Scholarship, for his book Lynchings: Extralegal Violence in Florida  During the 1930s.

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1           “They Shall Not Die!”
Chapter 2            A Call to Millions
Chapter 3            Harry Haywood Speaks
Chapter 4            William Patterson Speaks
Chapter 5            Monitoring the Case
Chapter 6            Following Through
Epilogue
Profiles of Black Communists
Appendix
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

In 1931, in Scottsboro, AL, nine African American men were wrongly accused of raping two white women. An all-white jury found them guilty, and eight were sentenced to death. Here, Howard (American history, Bloomsburg Univ.) presents the voices of activists like Harry Haywood and William Patterson, who took the lead in organizing protests to free these innocent men.

—Ann Burns

Library Journal