artist who is a good friend of the well-known poet, langston hughes. his name was printed state or. langston hughes as a whole it was probably one of the afghan american writers who was deeply engaged and the publicity campaigns around the famous scottsboro boys. he wrote a famous in the 1930s book called the scottsboro limited. print is tailored to the inspirations -- illustration. and this image is an image that comes from that particular collection. so that's a wonderful image. his executor happen to live in georgetown, d.c., and his executive at the time gave us permission to reprint this. >> james miller is the chairman of the american studies department here at george washington university. in your subtitle to use the word legacy of the trial. what is the legacy? >> i was concerned as a student of literature culture with the ways in which scottsboro worked its way into the cabinet of american race relations. the way in which language circulates in the ways in which language continues to carry meaning and resonance, long after the events that traded off of occurred. so the lega

in fact, was drawn by a young, white, dc artist who was a good friend of the well-known poet, langston hughs. he was one of the african-american writers who was most deeply engaged in the publicity campaigns around freeing the scottsboro boys. he wrote a famous, in the 1930s, book of poetry called "scottsboro limited." they did illustrations, and this image is an image that comes from that particular collection. that's a wonderful image by taylor. his executive happened to live in georgetown, dc, and his executor kindly gave us the permission to reprint that image on the cover of the book for which i'm delighted. >> host: chairman of the american studies department here in george washington university. in your subtitle, you use the word "legacy" of the trial. what's legacy in your view? >> guest: i was concerned as a student of literature and culture of the way scottsboro worked its way into the vocabulary of race relations, the way in which language circulates, and the ways in which language continueses to carry -- continues to carry meaning and resonance long after the events that triggere

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