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Scottsboro
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCBV-GhyINY
Articles
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/trials4.htm
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/scottsboro.html
Audio:
The following two links are to NPR (National Public Radio). Press the LISTEN button.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1075545
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1134969
Primary Sources
http://www.law.cornell.edu/search/lii/top/scottsboro
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/Ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/filmmore/fd.html
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/SB_tri33tml.html
What was Jim Crow?
http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/what.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_scotts.html
Background
Plessy v. Ferguson
,
163 U.S. 537 (1896), is a
landmark
United States Supreme Court
decision in the
jurisprudence
of the
United States
, upholding the
constitutionality
of state laws requiring
racial segregation
in public facilities under the doctrine of "
separate but equal
."
[1]
The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1 with the majority opinion written by Justice
Henry Billings Brown
and the dissent written by Justice
John Marshall Harlan
. "Separate but equal" remained standard doctrine in U.S. law until its repudiation in the 1954 Supreme Court decision
Brown v. Board of Education
.
[2]