London Says Goodbye to The Scottsboro Boys

Photograph by Johan Persson In June of 2013, I wrote about the impact of theatre on history, how Kander & Ebb's musical The Scottsboro Boys had helped change history. By telling the story of the nine black teenagers who were wrongly accused of rape in Alabama in 1931, national attention was brought to the travesty of justice that helped spark the American Civil rights movement and led to two seminal Supreme Court rulings. In April 19, 2013, 82 years after the Scottsboro boys were arrested, the A...