In January 1935, Bubbles Clayton and James X. Caruthers were convicted for the r*pe of a white woman, Virgie Terry, in Mississippi county. The case drew national attention to the Arkansas criminal justice system and became widely known as the Arkansas 'Scottsboro' Case. Clayton, age twenty-one, and Caruthers, age nineteen were arrested in Blytheville, Mississippi […]

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