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Scottsboro Boys |
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10 x 17 x 6 in |
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Commentary: This work references a famous miscarriage of justice in 1931 when 9 Black teenagers were wrongly accused of raping two white women on a train near Scottsboro Alabama. They were tried, convicted & sentenced to death. The youngest was 12.
Medium: Old wood box reconstructed as a cell boxcar, photo in old frame, lead toy conductor, racist stereotype puppet & vintage cardboard caricature of a porter
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