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Scottsboro, Alabama: a story in linoleum cuts

Lin Shi Khan and Tony Perez 2004 © New York University Press
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  • 9780814751893 (ebook)
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  • American: 1900-present
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Permissions
  • Preface to the Electronic Edition
  • Table of Illustrations and Transcriptions
  • Thumbnails of Illustrations
  • Foreword Rummaging through "The Ash Heap of a Bitter Past" by Robin D. G. Kelley
  • Introduction to Print Edition by Andrew H. Lee
    • [Intro]
    • Part I: "Negroes Come to America"
    • Part II: "The Nine Boys of Scottsboro"
    • Part III: "White and Black Unite"
    • Provenance
    • Description
  • Comparative Analysis by Andrew H. Lee
  • Scottsboro Alabama: A Story in Linoleum Cuts (Proof Version, Tamiment Library)
    • Edition [fig. T1]
    • Dedication [fig. T2]
    • Foreword [fig. T3]
    • Foreword (mimeograph) [fig. T4]
    • Title Page [fig. T5]
    • Part One: Negroes Come to America [fig. T6]
    • American slave traders dragged the negroes from their native land [fig. T7-T8]
    • Shackling and stowing them on slave boats to be transported to America [fig. T9-T10]
    • Where the plantation boss put them to work raising cotton and tobacco [fig. T11-T12]
    • The negro slaves soon rose in rebellion [fig. T13-T14]
    • But the boss smashed the revolts by forming the KKK [fig. T15-T16]
    • Since the civil war forces of law and terror have kept the master in power [fig. T17-T18]
    • The more rebellious negroes are thrown in prison chain-gangs [fig. T19-T20]
    • Where torture from the whipping post and the sweat box awaits them [fig. T21-T22]
    • The negroes freed from chattel bonds found they were now wage slaves [fig. T23-T24]
    • On the plantations or in the industrial centers [fig. T25-T26]
    • The boss uses every means to keep the negro separated from the white [fig. T27-T28]
    • Sadistic lynchings are encouraged to fan the flame of race hatred [fig. T29-T30]
    • But the misery and starvation that haunts the home of the negro [fig. T31-T32]
    • Connects him with the hunger stricken home of the white worker [fig. T33-T34]
    • At camp hill negro and white toilers gathered to draw up a bill of rights [fig. T35-T36]
    • Again the boss and his forces drove back the workers with terror [fig. T37-T38]
    • A united hatred of white and negro toilers is rising against the tyrant master [fig. T39-T40]
    • Part Two: The nine boys of Scottsboro [fig. T41]
    • Nine young jobless negroes left their wretched homes [fig. T42-T43]
    • Headed for Birmingham in search of a job [fig. T44-T45]
    • Carrying a few belongings they took to the freights [fig. T46-T47]
    • At the same time two jobless white girls left for the city [fig. T48-T49]
    • Traveling with some white fellows on the same train as the nine negroes [fig. T50-T51]
    • Railroad deputies arrested the boys for vagrancy [fig. T52-T53]
    • And discovered the girls on the same freight train [fig. T54-T55]
    • The white boys were run out of town [fig. T56-T57]
    • And the nine young negroes locked in jail [fig. T58-T59]
    • The bosses to stop the growing unity of white and black workers [fig. T60-T61]
    • The propaganda of race hate was prepared [fig. T62-T63]
    • The newspapers spread the poisonous cry [fig. T64-T65]
    • Broadcasting hate against the negro people [fig. T66-T67]
    • Local community leaders were ready to hand the lynch rope [fig. T68-T69]
    • To the fascist hoodlums who wanted to lynch the nine young negroes [fig. T70-T71]
    • But the boss to impress the doubtful white workers [fig. T72-T73]
    • Gave the lynch job to his lackey the court [fig. T74-T75]
    • Aided by a jury from which negroes were excluded [fig. T76-T77]
    • The judge sentenced the nine defenseless boys [fig. T78-T79]
    • Condemning them to die by the electric chair [fig. T80-T81]
    • While a band on the court yard steps played "America" [fig. T82-T83]
    • Part Three: White and black unite [fig. T84]
    • The communists spread word of the frameup [fig. T85-T86]
    • "Scottsboro" became one of the daily problems [fig. T87-T88]
    • For the working class of all countries [fig. T89-T90]
    • So strong was the pressure of world opinion [fig. T91-T92]
    • That the planned execution was stopped [fig. T93-T94]
    • And the ruling class granted a new trial [fig. T95-T96]
    • Knowing that their legal machine of justice [fig. T97-T98]
    • Would be blind to the refutation of one girl [fig. T99-T100]
    • And the courageous nine who answered the charge [fig. T101-T102]
    • Obedient courts again demanded death [fig. T103-T104]
    • But the symbol of Scottsboro will weld the masses forward [fig. T105-T106]
    • [Hand clasps wrist] [fig. T107]
    • And driving all of the many parasites [fig. T108-T109]
    • Into the ash heap of the bitter past [fig. T110-T111]
    • [Raised fist] [fig. T112]
    • Appendix
      • [Intro]
      • [Basler Vorwärts clippings] [fig. T113]
      • [Donations list] [fig. T114]
      • [Petition] [fig. T115]
      • [Ruby Bates letter facsimile] [fig. T116-T117]
  • Scottsboro: A Story in Block Prints (Draft Version, Wolfsonian Library)
    • The Electric Chair [Front Cover] [fig. W1]
    • [Fly Leaf] [fig. W2]
    • Scottsboro (Train) [Half Title] [fig. W3]
    • Scottsboro (An Interracial Handshake) [Title Page] [fig. W4]
    • Negro in Original State [Blank Leaf] [fig. W5]
    • Negro People in Africa [fig. W6]
    • Slave Ships (Cross Section) [fig. W7]
    • Cruel White Masters [fig. W8]
    • KKK Terrorism [fig. W9]
    • Brutal, Sadistic Lynchings [fig. W10]
    • Chain Gangs [fig. W11]
    • All Means of Torture [fig. W12]
    • Mass Lynchings and Burnings [fig. W13]
    • Segregation and Jim Crow Laws [fig. W14]
    • Children Labor in Cotton Fields [fig. W15]
    • Starving Times [fig. W16]
    • White Workers Also Live in Poverty [fig. W17]
    • Camp Hill, Interracial Sharecropper Union [fig. W18]
    • Violent Suppression of Union [fig. W19]
    • Workers Halt Injustice [fig. W20]
    • No Work, Especially for Negroes [fig. W21]
    • Youths Search for Work [fig. W22]
    • Hopping Freight Trains [fig. W23]
    • Jobless Girls Turn Prostitutes [fig. W24]
    • Black and White Boys, Girls Ride the Rails [fig. W25]
    • Vagrants in Forced Labor Camps [fig. W26]
    • Girls Threatened with Jail Terms [fig. W27]
    • White Boys Driven Out of Town [fig. W28]
    • Nine Negro Boys Jailed [fig. W29]
    • For Riding the Rails with White Girls [fig. W30]
    • Coerced Testimony for Rape Charges [fig. W31]
    • Making Them Wafers [fig. W32]
    • The Cry of "Rape" [fig. W33]
    • Jingoism [fig. W34]
    • Supported by the Bosses' Church [fig. W35]
    • A Lynch Spirit Is Created [fig. W36]
    • Big Business Has Other Plans [fig. W37]
    • A Legal Lynching [fig. W38]
    • American Justice Demands Death [fig. W39]
    • Liberty Usurped by Ku Klux Klan [fig. W40]
    • Big Business Interests [fig. W41]
    • Brutal Fascists Are Satisfied [fig. W42]
    • Hammer and Sickle in Black and White [fig. W43]
    • Eight Face the Electric Chair [fig. W44]
    • The Thirteen-Year-Old Faces Life in Prison [fig. W45]
    • International Labor Defense to the Rescue [fig. W46]
    • I.L.D. Protest Rallies Demand Their Release [fig. W47]
    • NAACP Lackeys to White Bosses [fig. W48]
    • International Cries for Freedom [fig. W49]
    • Powerful Fist of the Proletariat [fig. W50]
    • Forces a New Trial, U.S. Supreme Court [fig. W51]
    • The Struggle for Negro Rights [fig. W52]
    • Alabama Justice, KKK Judge [fig. W53]
    • Ruby Bates Retracts Her Lie [fig. W54]
    • Haywood Patterson: "I Was Framed" [fig. W55]
    • Southern Justice Demands Death [fig. W56]
    • Workers Stop the Sentence [fig. W57]
    • Drive the Parasite Boss Out [fig. W58]
    • Workers Must Rise for Freedom and Justice [fig. W59]
    • The Bourgeoisie in the Ashcan of History [fig. W60]
    • White, Negro, and Oriental Workers March Forward [fig. W61]
    • To a World Soviet [fig. W62]
    • [Fly Leaf] [fig. W63]
    • [Fly Leaf] [fig. W64]
    • Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Ex Libris [Inside Back Cover] [fig. W65]
    • They Shall Not Die [Back Cover] [fig. W66]
  • Notes
    • Introduction
    • Comparative Analysis
  • Selected Sources
    • Foreword
    • Introduction
  • About the Authors

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Stories of Scottsboro. Goodman, James E. New York: Pantheon, 1994.
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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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