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Images of Scottsboro

Images of Scottsboro Lynn Barstis Williams Southern Cultures, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2000, pp. 50-67 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2000.0043 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/423892/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:03 GMT from JHU Libraries ESSAY by Lynn Barstis Williams ? his poem "Scottsboro Too Is Worth Its Song," die Harlem Renaissance poet Countée CuUen complains that poets "have raised no cry" against the injustice suffered by the Scottsboro boys in contrast to their "sharp and pretty tunes" for Sacco and Vanzetti.1 Granted, no artist memorialized die Scottsboro boys to the degree Ben Shahn did the two anarchists in his painting that repeatedly ap- pears in art history texts to illustrate the American social realist movement; yet, contrary to Cullen's claim it is doubtful that any victims of alleged legal oppres- sion touched as many socially conscious artists as did the nine African Americans accused, while riding a train as hobos, of raping two white women. In March 193 1 nine black youths boarded a train in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as did some young white men. When die train stopped in Paint Rock, Alabama, sheriff's deputies arrested the blacks for fighting with die http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Images of Scottsboro

Katz, Lynn Barstis Williams,
Southern Cultures , Volume 6 (1) – Jan 4, 2012
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Lynn Barstis Williams Southern Cultures, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2000, pp. 50-67 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2000.0043 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/423892/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:03 GMT from JHU Libraries ESSAY by Lynn Barstis Williams ? his poem "Scottsboro Too Is Worth Its Song," die Harlem Renaissance poet Countée CuUen complains that poets "have raised no cry" against the injustice suffered by the Scottsboro boys in contrast to their "sharp and pretty tunes" for Sacco and Vanzetti.1 Granted, no artist memorialized die Scottsboro boys to the degree Ben Shahn did the two anarchists in his painting that repeatedly ap- pears in art history texts to illustrate the American social realist movement; yet, contrary to Cullen's claim it is doubtful that any victims of alleged legal oppres- sion touched as many socially conscious artists as did the nine African Americans accused, while riding a train as hobos, of raping two white women. In March 193 1 nine black youths boarded a train in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as did some young white men. When die train stopped in Paint Rock, Alabama, sheriff's deputies arrested the blacks for fighting with die

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