HIST 3850 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cold Hearted, An American Dilemma, Miscarriage
20 Nov 2016
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Lecture 9: the supreme court & the u. s. south during the great depression. Unemployed workers line up for charity in front of ironic billboard. Nine african-american teenagers hitching ride on regional freight train. Fight with groups of white teens on same train. Arrested at next stop scottsboro, alabama and charged with assault and attempted murder (cid:862)the (cid:272)otts(cid:271)o(cid:396)o bo(cid:455)s(cid:863: ni(cid:374)e (cid:455)ou(cid:374)g (cid:373)e(cid:374). T(cid:396)ou(cid:271)le (cid:271)ega(cid:374) (cid:449)he(cid:374) a fight (cid:271)ega(cid:374) afte(cid:396) o(cid:374)e stepped o(cid:374) so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s ha(cid:374)d; the(cid:455) either got thrown off, or jumped off themselves. They also got assaulted by the blacks. Train moving between two cities; passed through alabama. Armed poesy was awaiting the train when it stopped to arrest the nine boys and charge them with attempted murder. Found something unexpected on the train; two white girls not much attention was paid to them for the first 20 minutes until they stated that both of them were raped when the train was in transit.
