Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro: A Documentary History

Book info: Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro: A Documentary History (Hardcover, 200 pages) – Temple University Press, 2007. Language: English.

Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro, an account of a neglected chapter in the story of the Scottsboro saga, gives voice to a segment of the African American community that has often been ignored or distorted: black Communists. Editorial Reviews Review "A unique blend of primary sources on the Scottsboro case. It is wonderful to see documents from the rich collection of CPUSA headquarter files finally making their way to readers! They provide a window into the day-to-day and year-by-year struggles waged by American (and international) Communists around the Scottsboro defense." -- Gerald Zahavi, Professor of History and Director, Documentary Studies Program, State University of New York at Albany About the Author Walter T. Howard is Professor of American History at Bloomsburg University in northeastern Pennsylvania and the editor of B.D. Amis, African American Radical: A Short Anthology of His Writings and Speeches. He was awarded The Gustavus Myers Award for Human Rights Scholarship, for his book Lynchings: Extralegal Violence in Florida  During the 1930s.