Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men by Sandra Neil Wallace, Rich Wallace

Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men

Sandra Neil Wallace, Rich Wallace

144 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction emotional informative medium-paced

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Scipio Africanus Jones—a self-taught attorney who was born enslaved—leads a momentous series of court cases to save twelve black men who’d been unjustly sentenced to death.In October 1919, a group of black sharecroppers met at a church in an Arkan...

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