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'Boys' Town: Saga of Scottsboro; A former Philadelphian trains his sights on Oscar
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Jewish Exponent
03-22-2001
`Boys' Town: Saga of Scottsboro; A former Philadelphian trains his sights
on Oscar
From the hills of Alabama to the Hollywood hoopla of the Academy Awards has
proved an historic ride for the strife-ridden story of the Scottsboro Boys.
The boys, nine black teens, were hobos who illegally boarded a train in
Chattanooga, Tenn., 70 years ago this month. By the time the train steamed
into Paint Rock, Ala., they...
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; "The common goal of Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights that America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as
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`The Scottsboro Boys' reveals great trial's drama.(VARIETY)
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