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Scottsboro, Alabama: a story in linoleum cuts
Lin Shi Khan and Tony Perez-
Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright and Permissions
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Preface to the Electronic Edition
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Table of Illustrations and Transcriptions
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Thumbnails of Illustrations
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Foreword Rummaging through "The Ash Heap of a Bitter Past" by Robin D. G. Kelley
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Introduction to Print Edition by Andrew H. Lee
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[Intro]
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Part I: "Negroes Come to America"
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Part II: "The Nine Boys of Scottsboro"
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Part III: "White and Black Unite"
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Provenance
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Description
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Comparative Analysis by Andrew H. Lee
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Scottsboro Alabama: A Story in Linoleum Cuts (Proof Version, Tamiment Library)
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Edition [fig. T1]
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Dedication [fig. T2]
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Foreword [fig. T3]
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Foreword (mimeograph) [fig. T4]
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Title Page [fig. T5]
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Part One: Negroes Come to America [fig. T6]
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American slave traders dragged the negroes from their native land [fig. T7-T8]
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Shackling and stowing them on slave boats to be transported to America [fig. T9-T10]
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Where the plantation boss put them to work raising cotton and tobacco [fig. T11-T12]
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The negro slaves soon rose in rebellion [fig. T13-T14]
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But the boss smashed the revolts by forming the KKK [fig. T15-T16]
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Since the civil war forces of law and terror have kept the master in power [fig. T17-T18]
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The more rebellious negroes are thrown in prison chain-gangs [fig. T19-T20]
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Where torture from the whipping post and the sweat box awaits them [fig. T21-T22]
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The negroes freed from chattel bonds found they were now wage slaves [fig. T23-T24]
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On the plantations or in the industrial centers [fig. T25-T26]
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The boss uses every means to keep the negro separated from the white [fig. T27-T28]
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Sadistic lynchings are encouraged to fan the flame of race hatred [fig. T29-T30]
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But the misery and starvation that haunts the home of the negro [fig. T31-T32]
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Connects him with the hunger stricken home of the white worker [fig. T33-T34]
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At camp hill negro and white toilers gathered to draw up a bill of rights [fig. T35-T36]
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Again the boss and his forces drove back the workers with terror [fig. T37-T38]
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A united hatred of white and negro toilers is rising against the tyrant master [fig. T39-T40]
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Part Two: The nine boys of Scottsboro [fig. T41]
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Nine young jobless negroes left their wretched homes [fig. T42-T43]
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Headed for Birmingham in search of a job [fig. T44-T45]
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Carrying a few belongings they took to the freights [fig. T46-T47]
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At the same time two jobless white girls left for the city [fig. T48-T49]
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Traveling with some white fellows on the same train as the nine negroes [fig. T50-T51]
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Railroad deputies arrested the boys for vagrancy [fig. T52-T53]
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And discovered the girls on the same freight train [fig. T54-T55]
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The white boys were run out of town [fig. T56-T57]
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And the nine young negroes locked in jail [fig. T58-T59]
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The bosses to stop the growing unity of white and black workers [fig. T60-T61]
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The propaganda of race hate was prepared [fig. T62-T63]
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The newspapers spread the poisonous cry [fig. T64-T65]
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Broadcasting hate against the negro people [fig. T66-T67]
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Local community leaders were ready to hand the lynch rope [fig. T68-T69]
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To the fascist hoodlums who wanted to lynch the nine young negroes [fig. T70-T71]
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But the boss to impress the doubtful white workers [fig. T72-T73]
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Gave the lynch job to his lackey the court [fig. T74-T75]
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Aided by a jury from which negroes were excluded [fig. T76-T77]
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The judge sentenced the nine defenseless boys [fig. T78-T79]
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Condemning them to die by the electric chair [fig. T80-T81]
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While a band on the court yard steps played "America" [fig. T82-T83]
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Part Three: White and black unite [fig. T84]
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The communists spread word of the frameup [fig. T85-T86]
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"Scottsboro" became one of the daily problems [fig. T87-T88]
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For the working class of all countries [fig. T89-T90]
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So strong was the pressure of world opinion [fig. T91-T92]
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That the planned execution was stopped [fig. T93-T94]
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And the ruling class granted a new trial [fig. T95-T96]
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Knowing that their legal machine of justice [fig. T97-T98]
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Would be blind to the refutation of one girl [fig. T99-T100]
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And the courageous nine who answered the charge [fig. T101-T102]
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Obedient courts again demanded death [fig. T103-T104]
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But the symbol of Scottsboro will weld the masses forward [fig. T105-T106]
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[Hand clasps wrist] [fig. T107]
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And driving all of the many parasites [fig. T108-T109]
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Into the ash heap of the bitter past [fig. T110-T111]
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[Raised fist] [fig. T112]
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Appendix
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[Intro]
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[Basler Vorwärts clippings] [fig. T113]
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[Donations list] [fig. T114]
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[Petition] [fig. T115]
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[Ruby Bates letter facsimile] [fig. T116-T117]
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Scottsboro: A Story in Block Prints (Draft Version, Wolfsonian Library)
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The Electric Chair [Front Cover] [fig. W1]
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[Fly Leaf] [fig. W2]
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Scottsboro (Train) [Half Title] [fig. W3]
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Scottsboro (An Interracial Handshake) [Title Page] [fig. W4]
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Negro in Original State [Blank Leaf] [fig. W5]
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Negro People in Africa [fig. W6]
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Slave Ships (Cross Section) [fig. W7]
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Cruel White Masters [fig. W8]
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KKK Terrorism [fig. W9]
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Brutal, Sadistic Lynchings [fig. W10]
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Chain Gangs [fig. W11]
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All Means of Torture [fig. W12]
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Mass Lynchings and Burnings [fig. W13]
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Segregation and Jim Crow Laws [fig. W14]
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Children Labor in Cotton Fields [fig. W15]
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Starving Times [fig. W16]
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White Workers Also Live in Poverty [fig. W17]
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Camp Hill, Interracial Sharecropper Union [fig. W18]
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Violent Suppression of Union [fig. W19]
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Workers Halt Injustice [fig. W20]
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No Work, Especially for Negroes [fig. W21]
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Youths Search for Work [fig. W22]
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Hopping Freight Trains [fig. W23]
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Jobless Girls Turn Prostitutes [fig. W24]
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Black and White Boys, Girls Ride the Rails [fig. W25]
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Vagrants in Forced Labor Camps [fig. W26]
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Girls Threatened with Jail Terms [fig. W27]
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White Boys Driven Out of Town [fig. W28]
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Nine Negro Boys Jailed [fig. W29]
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For Riding the Rails with White Girls [fig. W30]
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Coerced Testimony for Rape Charges [fig. W31]
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Making Them Wafers [fig. W32]
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The Cry of "Rape" [fig. W33]
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Jingoism [fig. W34]
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Supported by the Bosses' Church [fig. W35]
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A Lynch Spirit Is Created [fig. W36]
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Big Business Has Other Plans [fig. W37]
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A Legal Lynching [fig. W38]
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American Justice Demands Death [fig. W39]
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Liberty Usurped by Ku Klux Klan [fig. W40]
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Big Business Interests [fig. W41]
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Brutal Fascists Are Satisfied [fig. W42]
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Hammer and Sickle in Black and White [fig. W43]
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Eight Face the Electric Chair [fig. W44]
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The Thirteen-Year-Old Faces Life in Prison [fig. W45]
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International Labor Defense to the Rescue [fig. W46]
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I.L.D. Protest Rallies Demand Their Release [fig. W47]
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NAACP Lackeys to White Bosses [fig. W48]
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International Cries for Freedom [fig. W49]
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Powerful Fist of the Proletariat [fig. W50]
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Forces a New Trial, U.S. Supreme Court [fig. W51]
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The Struggle for Negro Rights [fig. W52]
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Alabama Justice, KKK Judge [fig. W53]
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Ruby Bates Retracts Her Lie [fig. W54]
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Haywood Patterson: "I Was Framed" [fig. W55]
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Southern Justice Demands Death [fig. W56]
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Workers Stop the Sentence [fig. W57]
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Drive the Parasite Boss Out [fig. W58]
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Workers Must Rise for Freedom and Justice [fig. W59]
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The Bourgeoisie in the Ashcan of History [fig. W60]
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White, Negro, and Oriental Workers March Forward [fig. W61]
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To a World Soviet [fig. W62]
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[Fly Leaf] [fig. W63]
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[Fly Leaf] [fig. W64]
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Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Ex Libris [Inside Back Cover] [fig. W65]
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They Shall Not Die [Back Cover] [fig. W66]
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Notes
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Introduction
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Comparative Analysis
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Selected Sources
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Foreword
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Introduction
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About the Authors
HEB Id | Title | Authors | Publication Information |
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Stories of Scottsboro. | Goodman, James E. | New York: Pantheon, 1994. | |
heb01856.0001.001 | They shall not die! Stop the Legal Lynching: The Story of Scottsboro in Pictures. | League of Struggle for Negro Rights. | New York: Workers' Library Publisher, 1932. |
Communists in Harlem during the Depression. | Naison, Mark. | New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1984. | |
The Last of the Scottsboro Boys. | Norris, Clarence, and Sybil D. Washington. | New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1979. | |
heb02093.0001.001 | The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South. | Painter, Nell Irvin. | Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979. |
Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. | Sullivan, Patricia L. | Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. |
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Published: 2004
Publisher: New York University Press
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