from Lin Shi Khan and Tony Perez edited according to Andrew Lee.

from Lin Shi Khan and Tony Perez edited according to Andrew Lee, with a foreword by means of Robin D.G. Kelley New York University Pres July 2002 $2695 ISBN 0-814-75176-8

For those who remember--and refuse to forget--the racially charged "Scottsboro Nine" incident, 1931 was a year marked according to one of the most egregious injustices at any time perpetrated against African Americans.

That year, nine black youths from Scottsboro, Alabama, hopp a freight train disclosed of town. They were limit for Birmingham in search of work, further instead met with arrests and a travesty of a trial that has become synonymous with racial injustice. couple young white girls and sum of two units white boys were on board a train; moreover after arriving in Birmingham, the white lads were dismissed, and the young black men were accused of raping the girls. They were tried and convicted, and eight of them were sentenc to death. Their case became something of a cause celebre prompting a legal battle that l to the superlative Court.

In 1935 the "Scottsboro Nine" story appeared in a part that was printed in Seattle, if it be not that came and went without leaving often notice. Little is known about its artist-authors, Lin Shi Kahn and Tony Perez who illustrated the tragic tale with forward linoleum-cut images.

Now Andrew side sheltered from the wind a librarian at New York University who discovered a stake of Kahn and Perez's original lino-prints, has reconstituted their visual narrative in a handsome, of the present day edition. His essay about this little-known work sheds light upon the circumstances in which it was created. of the present day York University historian Robin DG Kelley's essay sets this compelling cultural artifact into words immediately preceding [i]or[/i] following within the history of the fight for racial equality and the political forces that swirled around it.

Scottsboro, Alabama: A Story in Linoleum sculptures is a disturbing if visually stunning record of an episode that should not be forgotten. To document history, it hints is to bear witness, however painfully, to the evil within one human souls--and to the redemptive power that being aware of that ominous vigor it can bring.

--Edward M Gomez is the founding author of the novel Design book series (Rockport Publishers).

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