shades of black and white In James Goodman's hands, the Scottsboro case becomes a complex and subtle metaphor

The Boston Globe | March 13, 1994| | Copyright

STORIES OF SCOTTSBORO

By James Goodman. Pantheon. 465 pp. Illustrated. $27.50.

Curtis Wilkie is a member of the Globe staff.

"A white foot stepped on a black hand. . . ."

The first sentence of James Goodman's remarkable and heartbreaking book describes an act that set in motion the infamous Scottsboro case, but it also works as a metaphor for life in Alabama during the Depression.

On March 25, 1931, a racial fight broke out between young hobos on a Southern Railroad freight train after a white boy stepped on the hand of a black teen-ager, Haywood Patterson. During the melee, most of ...

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