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  • Alabama Set To Pardon ‘Scottsboro Boys’ Over Racist Rape Convictions

    04/07/2013 6:43:10 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 34 replies
    News One ^ | Apr 5, 2013
    The legacy of the “Scottsboro Boys” is secure: The nine black teens were wrongly convicted more than 80 years ago in one of America’s most infamous racial tragedies. Alabama is now moving to repair its own legacy, and correct past injustices, with a bill to allow posthumous pardons for the group. On Thursday, the state House voted 103-0 in favor of legislation setting up a procedure to pardon the teens, who were falsely accused of rape by two white women in 1931. The Senate had passed the bill earlier, 29-0. Gov. Robert Bentley has indicated he will sign it. “This...
  • George S. Schuyler, All-American

    02/29/2004 2:30:29 PM PST · by mrustow · 6 replies · 457+ views
    Men's News Daily ^ | 29 February 2004 | Nicholas Stix
    Given that the teaching of black studies is today dominated by privileged incompetents and political hacks who teach – in one of Schuyler’s favorite words -- hokum, I suppose it is fitting that they either disparage or ignore George S. Schuyler. After all, they hold the greatest of all black Americans, Booker T. Washington, in contempt, so why should Schuyler fare any better?George Samuel Schuyler was born in 1895 in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of a chef, and grew up in Syracuse, New York. He served six years in the U.S. Army (1912-1918), eventually attaining the rank of First...