This chapter explores the systemic racism embedded in the U.S. judicial system through the wrongful convictions of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African American teenagers falsely accused. It highlights the failure of judicial institutions, including the Supreme Court, to redress these injustices and connects this event to broader moral failings in society.
In the season finale, we turn back the clock four years, take a side trip to Alabama, meet an extraordinary man named Billy Garland, and ask: What is the right way to reconcile something pure with the messiness of the real world?
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