SCOTTSBORO BOYS MARCH IN HARLEM (1933) Press photo
$200.00
Np: Acme News Features, 1933. Vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white photo. Text, date and Acme stamp on verso, near fine.
Documents a large demonstration in Harlem passing into Seventh Avenue and 140th Street. The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American male teenagers accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. The charges were trumped up, but it took years of endless court wrangling to eventually get all these men free.
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