Accused! The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment
Author: Brimner, Larry Dane
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.3
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
31988
Points per Word
0.000188
Page Count
189
Points per Page
0.031746
Description
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.