"One of Trump’s recent federal court filings is truly Orwellian. Trump was trying to delay his trial by almost three years. The filing compares Trump, a self-proclaimed billionaire, to the Scottsboro Boys, nine Black youths who suffered one of the most notoriously racist judicial persecutions in U.S. history."

~ Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan

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https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/31/trump_orwell_and_the_scottsboro_boys

🥥 Noted racist, rapist, and accused election disrupter Trump's lawyers cite the famous #ScottsboroBoys civil rights case in arguing that his Washington, DC, trial not begin before April 2026. 🥥
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Today in Labor History March 25, 1931: The authorities arrested the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama and charged them with rape. The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American youths, ages 13 to 20, falsely accused of raping two white women. A lynch mob tried to murder them before they had even been indicted. All-white juries convicted each of them. Several judges gave death sentences, a common practice in Alabama at the time for black men convicted of raping white women. The Communist Party and the NAACP fought to get the cases appealed and retried. Finally, after numerous retrials and years in harsh prisons, four of the Scottsboro Boys were acquitted and released. The other five were got sentences ranging from 75 years to death. All were released or escaped by 1946. Poet and playwright Langston Hughes wrote it in his work Scottsboro Limited. And Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son was influenced by the case.

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TFW your friend who’s a bonafide Civil Rights hero (SNCC etc) sends you the gift of a lifetime. I almost cried. I’ll cherish this forever.😭♥️

*in addition to being a Communist organizer, prolific writer, historian, &activist, James Allen (Sol Auerbach) helped saved the #scottsboroboys from execution.

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