Scottsboro boy / by Haywood Patterson and Earl Conrad.

Includes appendices and timetable of events.

Part one. The big frame -- Part two. Murderer's home 1937-1943 -- Part. three Kilby 1943-1948.

"Scottsboro Boy is Haywood Patterson's own story of the infamous Scottsboro case and its aftermath, and Earl Conrad tells it in the simple, direct, and powerful words of Haywood Patterson himself - the recently escaped prisoner, the Scottsboro boy who is even now being hunted for a crime he did not commit. On March 25, 1931, nine Negro boys, unemployed and looking for work, were riding on a train that was passing through a Southern town. They got into a fight with some white hobos and knocked them off the train. To get even, the whites reported that the negros raped two white prostitutes whom they knew to be riding on that same freight train. Thus began the Scottsboro case. Patterson, a man of extraordinary character and resourcefulness, a man with a sense of humor and no missionary zeal, goes on to tell what happened to him during the shocking trials. But perhaps most revealing of all is his account of the harrowing life on notorious Alabama prison farms and in Alabama jails - how he was kept in prison because he refused to knuckle under, how he lived by the jungle law of survival. He rates body guards by degrees (not all of them were evil), discusses candidly the sex life of the prisoners, reports on the money that came from sympathizers outside the walls, and reveals the thrilling details of his ultimate escape after earlier attempts had failed. Scottsboro Boy is filled with an inner honesty and a passionate belief in the freedom of man; it is a supreme testimony to a man of resiliency and courage, a man who refused to give up in the face of almost insurmountable odds." - From book jacket.