ID: 8952  -  Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani  -  Firenze
Type: Text		   Women and Scottsboro
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Medium: EssayExtent: 4 pp.
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Title: Women and ScottsboroSubtitle:
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Creator: Rukeyser, Muriel
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Created: date unknown
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Language: English
Rights: William L. Rukeyser ( Davis, California)
Relation: IsPartOfQualifier: Berg Collection, New York Public Library
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Description: Typed copy of an essay with handwritten corrections. It is undated, but it is to be assigned to the year 1933 (see record [:653;653:]
).
Subjects: Places
Subjects: Identity
Subjects: Identity
Subjects: Displacement
Subjects: Exchanges
Subjects: Gender/Sexuality
Subjects: Definitions of Culture
Subjects: Wo/Men
Subjects: Race/Ethnicity		Keywords: US
Keywords: leftish
Keywords: working class
Keywords: racism
Keywords: US
Keywords: prostitution
Keywords: journalism
Keywords: Rukeyser, Muriel
Keywords: racial discrimination		Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, US)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, leftish)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, working class)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Displacement, racism)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Exchanges, US)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Gender/Sexuality, prostitution)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Definitions of Culture, journalism)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Rukeyser, Muriel)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Race/Ethnicity, racial discrimination)
Comment: No crime - let alone a crime that never occurred - in American history produced as many trials, convictions, reversals, and retrials as did an alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers on a Southern railroad freight run on March 25, 1931. The two women were Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, the black teenagers were Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell, Clarence Norris, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Haywood Patterson. The trial began on April 6, 1931. On April 9, eight of the nine were sentenced to death. On November 7, !932, the United States Supreme Court ordered new trials for the Scottsboro defendants because they had not had adequate legal representation. At the end of March 1933, the new trials began in Decatur, Alabama and lasted almost two weeks. Rukeyser was there as a “sympathizer” or “a visiting radical” from New York (see record [:653;653:]
).