Scottsboro's martyr, J. Louis Engdahl /
Memorial tribute to J. Louis Engdahl, national secretary of the International Labor Defense.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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N.Y.C. :
International Labor Defense,
[1933?]
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| Summary: | Memorial tribute to J. Louis Engdahl, national secretary of the International Labor Defense. |
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| Item Description: | Cover title. Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenagers, ages 13 to 19, falsely accused of raping two white women aboard a train near Scottsboro, Alabama, in March 1931. The trials and repeated retrials of the Scottsboro Boys sparked an international uproar and produced two landmark U.S. Supreme Court verdicts, even as the defendants were forced to spend years battling the courts and enduring the harsh conditions of the Alabama prison system. Cover photographic portrait of Mrs. Ada Wright (mother of two of the Scottsboro Boys) and J. Louis Engdahl. They, and some of the other mothers, travelled across the country, and in Europe, in support of the International Labor Defense's efforts to free the Scottsboro Boys. Engdahl died in Moscow in 1932, the last stop of the trip. |
| Physical Description: | 7 unnumbered pages ; 15 cm |