Prentiss taylor scottsboro unlimited ninja

Artist: Prentiss Taylor
Title: Scottsboro Limited, from the portfolio Scottsboro
Date:
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 10 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.
Credit: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University,

In Scottsboro, Alabama in , nine young Black men, ranging in age from 13 to 19 years old, were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train.

Prentiss taylor scottsboro unlimited ninja

Although the charges against them were not credible, all except for one year-old were swiftly convicted and sentenced to the death by an all-white jury. Over the next few years, there were retrials, and some of the convictions were overturned or dismissed; some of the defendants were eventually paroled.

Nevertheless, the case, known as “The Shame of America,” became a symbol of the injustice and persistent racism in the United States.

The Scottsboro case quickly drew national and international attention and was a rallying point for left-wing artists and writers.

Prentiss Taylor was a young, white artist and