The Scottsboro Boys in Their Own Words

Kwando M. Kinshasa is a professor of African American Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

 1: Letters from 1931: Establishing the Legal Ground

 2: Letters from 1932: Counselors for the Wise

 3: Letters from 1933: Clash of Concerns

 4: Letters from 1934: Scottsboro Mothers

 5: Letters from 1935: Black Jurors Wanted

 6: Letters from 1936: Psychology of Oppression

 7: Letters from 1937: Four Down, Five to Go

 8: Letters from 1938: Jail Rot

 9: Letters from 1939: To be Free, and Then What

10: Letters from 1940: Pushed to the Limits

11: Letters from 1941: Dear Miss Hester Huntington

12: Letters from 1942: The ILD Way

13: Letters from 1943: Reaching Outward

14: Letters from 1944: To Be Paroled or Not

15: Letters from 1945: Patterson’s Burden

16: Letters from 1946: Andy Wright’s Return

17: Letters from 1947: The Cost of Parole

18: Letters from 1948: Patterson’s Guile

19: Letters from 1950: Andy’s Walk

Postscript

Appendices

deleteA. Report of the “Traveling Salesman”

deleteB. Kilby State Prison

deleteC. The Death of Janie Patterson

deleteD. Death Warrant of Haywood Patterson

References

Index