The Scottsboro Boys -- West End Garrick Theatre Until Sat Feb 21 2015
This review is of the show's original Young Vic run. A new review will go up in October. The Scottsboro Boys were nine young black men convicted of raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931. Following a mistrial, the overwhelming evidence of their innocence did nothing to persuade a succession of white Alabama juries to find them innocent; their plight did much to lay the groundwork for the US civil ri…