Accused! The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment
by Brimner, Larry Dane
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AR Book Level
8.3
AR Points
6
Word Count
31,988
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
508738 EN
About this book
This book presents court documents and eyewitness accounts of the Scottsboro case, in which nine young African American men were arrested in 1931 and convicted of raping two white women. The text contains sexual situations, violence and racial slurs.
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