Scottsboro Boy
by Patterson, Haywood; Conrad, Earl
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1950. 309pp. Dustwrapper with minor wear at tips. First Edition This is the autobiography of Haywood Patterson who was one of the accused in the famous Scottsboro rape case of the 1931. "On March 25, 1931, nine Negro boys, unemployed and looking for work, were riding on a train that was passing through a Southern town. They got into a fight with some white hobos and knocked them off the train. To get even, the whites reported that the negro kids had raped two prostitutes whom they knew to be riding on the same freight train. Thus began the Scottsboro case." Patterson tells his story of Alabama prison farms and jails and his ultmate escape from a term of life in prison. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004901
- Title
- Scottsboro Boy
- Author
- Patterson, Haywood; Conrad, Earl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Scottsboro Law True Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Law;
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