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Peer reviewedRoe, Richard L; And Others – Update on Law-Related Education, 1984
Presented is the history of the Scottsboro case, in which eight Black men were found guilty and sentenced to death for raping two White women in Alabama. At the heart of the Scottsboro trials was the issue of whether the U.S. Constitution established standards of justice in state criminal trials. (RM)
Descriptors: Blacks, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
