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Sadly, the George Zimmerman verdict was not news; rather, it was history repeating itself. I am reminded of the documentary, Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, which included a still image of Stanley Leibowitz, a Jewish lawyer from New York (Goodman & Goodman, 2001). The International Labor Defense (ILD), the legal arm of the Communist Party, retained Leibowitz to defend nine indigent Black males wrongfully convicted of raping two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, on a train headed for Chattanooga, Tennessee (Markovitz, 2004). Leibowitz won the right to have the defendants tried separately.
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Martin, L.L. (2014). Been There Done That. In: Fasching-Varner, K.J., Reynolds, R.E., Albert, K.A., Martin, L.L. (eds) Trayvon Martin, Race, and American Justice. Teaching Race and Ethnicity. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-842-8_4
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