"Scottsboro: Justice Delayed, Justice Denied"
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and Tuesday February 11 at 11:30pm
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| The Nine Scottsboro Defendants with their lawyer, Sam Leibowitz, in an Alabama Prison in 1931 |
This Week on Due Process
It was one of countless cases of southern injustice. Of black men falsely accused of raping white women. Of lynchings, legal and otherwise. Of innocent black defendants imprisoned - and worse.
On this week's edition of Due Process: the infamous case of The Scottsboro Boys, nine black teens, who, double-damned by Depression and Jim Crow, guilty of nothing more than riding the rails, found themselves sentenced to die.
Late last year, the State of Alabama issued posthumous pardons. The Scottsboro Boys were finally exonerated - more than 80 years too late.
We look at how they were framed, how they were freed after long years in prison, and how players as varied as the Communist Party, the NAACP and the U.S. Supreme Court all did their part.
Helping us understand the Scottsboro tragedy - and how far we have - or have not - come since: Rutgers Law Professor Taja-Nia Henderson, an expert on race and incarceration, and Rutgers-Newark Historian James Goodman, author of the seminal work, "Stories of Scottsboro," a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
It's a Black History Month special you won't want to miss. Please join us on NJTV this Sunday at 9:30 and 7, or Tuesday night at 11:30.
Sandy and Raymond
On this week's edition of Due Process: the infamous case of The Scottsboro Boys, nine black teens, who, double-damned by Depression and Jim Crow, guilty of nothing more than riding the rails, found themselves sentenced to die.
Late last year, the State of Alabama issued posthumous pardons. The Scottsboro Boys were finally exonerated - more than 80 years too late.
We look at how they were framed, how they were freed after long years in prison, and how players as varied as the Communist Party, the NAACP and the U.S. Supreme Court all did their part.
Helping us understand the Scottsboro tragedy - and how far we have - or have not - come since: Rutgers Law Professor Taja-Nia Henderson, an expert on race and incarceration, and Rutgers-Newark Historian James Goodman, author of the seminal work, "Stories of Scottsboro," a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
It's a Black History Month special you won't want to miss. Please join us on NJTV this Sunday at 9:30 and 7, or Tuesday night at 11:30.
Sandy and Raymond
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