cases
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: Scottsboro case

Scottsboro case
type: Concept
definition: In 1939, nine African American teenagers were accused of gang-raping two white women while riding on a Southern Railroad freight train. The case, which was tried in Alabama and spanned nearly two decades, produced more trials, convictions, appeals, reversals, and retrials than any other case in American history. [Source: Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime; Scottsboro Case]
broader: vigilantism
broader: legal issues

vigilantism
type: Concept
narrower: Scottsboro case

legal issues
type: Concept
narrower: Scottsboro case