AFAM 002B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Haywood Patterson, International Labor Defense, Cross-Examination
9 Aug 2017
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The scottsboro boys lecture + video notes. Bolded = key terms, concepts, facts, ideas, persons. Instead, found two white women, pale and disheveled: victoria price and ruby bates. Increasing conflict between classes and races textile mills: price was twice married and served time in workhouse for adultery and vagrancy. Southern womanhood: lester carter had sex with ruby while price had sex with boyfriend, leibowitz feigned to rest his case, then brings surprise witness ruby. Bates: ruby bates admits to saying it just as price told her to. Scottsboro verdicts, started to question if something was wrong lobbied for an end to. Closing notes: leibowitz never won victory in alabama court for scottsboro defendants, but he did save their lives, supreme court decision in norris vs alabama helped set motion for integration of. Southern juries: 1941 leibowitz became passionate advocate for capital punishment, victoria price disappeared after last scottsboro trial, presumed to be dead in mid-
