Book
Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment
- Published
- 2019
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Pages
- 192
- Words
- 31988
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 8.3
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 1170L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 12–17
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.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781629797755
- ISBN-10
- 1629797758
Tags
ALSC NotablesHistory-1930sHistory-Depression Era AmericaNonfictionPeople-African AmericanSocial Issues-Justice/Legal IssuesSocial Issues-Prejudice & DiscriminationSocial Issues-ViolenceTrialUnited States-Alabama