The Scottsboro Boys

Harper Lee reportedly drew on the Scottsboro Boys’ experience when she wrote her classic novel To Kill A Mockingbird, and over the years the case has inspired numerous other books, songs, feature films, documentaries, and a Broadway musical.

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”They were young, very young, and some of them really needed to be home with their mothers. They were not what you call rowdy. They were just mischievous and wanted to take a ride, but that was the wrong ride to take.”

 

 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/who-were-scottsboro-nine-180977193/

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/29/arts/scottsboro-70-years-later-still-notorious-still-painful.html

 

https://www.workers.org/2012/12/5912/

 

https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/alabama-pardons-scottsboro-boys-1552500

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scottsboro-boys-get-posthumous-pardon-in-1931-ala-rape-case/

 

https://scottsboroboysletters.as.ua.edu/individual-voices

 

LEADBELLY “Scottsboro boys” Library of Congress Recordings – YouTube

 

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/newspapr.htm

 

https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/alabama-pardons-scottsboro-boys-1552500

 

 http://henrysheehan.com/essays/def/eastwood.html

 

http://www.allstarpics.net/0026049/012627638/ray-charles-pic.html

 

http://cultureid.com/content/shelia-washington-founder-of-the-scottsboro-boys-m

 

http://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/aclu-history-scottsboro-boys

 

http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/scottsboro-boys-names-to-be-cleared-what-happened-to-lee-daniels-musical-adaptation

 

https://sites.google.com/site/historyscottboys/who-are-the-scottsboro-boys

 

https://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2014/09/scottsboro_1933.html

 

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ARCHIVIST, EDUCATOR, HISTORIAN, and ARTiST
Dale Ricardo Shields is a 2017 winner of The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award®, 2017 and 2015 Tony® award nominee for the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, the 2017 AUDELCO/"VIV" Special Achievement Award, 2020, 2021, and 2022 ENCORE AWARD / The Actors Fund and winner of the 2022.

Recently, he won the 2022 Legend Award from his alma mater Ohio University.

He is the 2021 winner of the Paul Robeson Award, presented (jointly) by the Actors Equity Association and the Actors Equity Foundation.

Research Accomplishments:
His extensive professional credits as a Director, Stage manager, and Actor (Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and Regional) As an actor he has appeared on Saturday Night Live, Another World, Guiding Light, The Cosby Show, and the ITV television series "Special Needs" and commercials and film.

Professor Shields is a member of the Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the American Guild of Musical Artists performance unions and an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

He began his artistic academic career in New York City at Playwrights Horizon, The South Bronx Action Theatre, and Mind Builders, and then was invited to join the teaching staff at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre (New York Shakespeare Festival). He represented the United States for Theatre Young Audiences at the ASSITEJ Theatre Festival in London, England.

He has been a Professor and Visiting Artist at Ohio University, The College of Wooster, Denison University, Macalester College, Randolph- Macon College, Susquehanna University, and SUNY Potsdam.

He holds B.F.A and M.F.A, Degrees from Ohio University.

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