by Ellen Griffith Spears, New College Learning the lessons of history is crucial to promoting diversity and achieving justice. University of Alabama students’ involvement in historical research on racial discrimination led to them “making history” in two ways — by writing about past events and by advancing the work of the Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center to win exoneration of the Scottsboro defendants, nine young men wrongly accused of rape in 1931. The movement to defend the Scottsboro Boys was […]

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