A journalist battles to save nine black youths from execution after false rape accusations ignite racial injustice in 1930s Alabama.
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A journalist battles to save nine black youths from execution after false rape accusations ignite racial injustice in 1930s Alabama.
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Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting with white boys. When two white girls emerge from another freight car, the cry of rape goes up. One of the girls sticks to her story. The other changes her tune, again and again. Told through the eyes of a young journalist who fights to save the nine youths from the electric chair, Scottsboro is a novel of a shocking injustice that convulsed the nation and reverberated around the world.
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Sexual content
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Central false rape accusations and sexual assault themes drive the plot
Violence & gore
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Threats of lynching and execution by electric chair amid racial violence
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Explores racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, and class prejudice in 1930s America
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Systemic racism, false rape accusations, poverty, and prolonged suffering of the accused
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