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The Supreme Court decisions helped establish the federal constitutional right to counsel in all state criminal cases, because it is inherent in [[due process]], and the illegality of systematicly excluding blacks from juries.
The Supreme Court decisions helped establish the federal constitutional right to counsel in all state criminal cases, because it is inherent in [[due process]], and the illegality of systematicly excluding blacks from juries.
==Communist role==
In 1928 the 6th Congress of the Comintern in Moscow, under [[Stalin]]'s control, resolved that the black population of the American South was a subject nation, thus capable of engendering a 'national revolutionary movement,' and ordered the American party to give work on the "Negro question" high priority. The party found in the Scottsboro case an ideal vehicle for worldwide propaganda as well as a recuiting tool in the ghettoes of northern cities.
==Arts==
In the North, liberal and radical artists created paintings and poems that depicted a racist South, where white men dominated blacks and white women with the illegitimate use of violence and arbitrary power. Artists used their work, moreover, to elicit sympathy for the accused and to convince Americans of the necessity of federal anti-lynching legislation. There were few lynchings in the South ain the 1930s, and the [[New Deal]] depended on the votes of the white South, and President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] refused to break up his coalition on the issue.
==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* Acker, James R. ''Scottsboro and Its Legacy: The Cases That Challenged American Legal and Social Justice.'' (2007)
* Acker, James R. ''Scottsboro and Its Legacy: The Cases That Challenged American Legal and Social Justice.'' (2007)