1. Racial attitudes and social mores in the south: 1900-1950
Reese said that it was not an individual's fault when a racial crime was committed, but the State's and that made it the state's problem to deal with. ... But there is a problem with paternalism, and that is that it still treats blacks as inferiors. ... This discrimination towards Jews permeated throughout the South and is clearly evident in the case of the Scottsboro Boys. In the case of the Scottsboro Boys in 1931 and the following years found the state of Alabama as a representative of the South, and Samuel Liebowitz as a representative of the "evil" North. ...
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