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W. E. B. Du Bois

Scottsboro Boys

1931
Alabama, U.S.

A rivalry emerged in 1931 between the NAACP and the Communist Party, when the Communists responded quickly and effectively to support the Scottsboro Boys, nine African-American youth arrested in 1931 in Alabama for rape.


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