Scottsboro, Alabama: a story in linoleum cuts

Khan, Lin Shi; Perez, Tony

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Lin Shi Khan and Tony Perez

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Contents
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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
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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