Haywood Patterson: Scottsboro Boy

Glossary

• gondolas low, flat-bottomed freight cars with fixed sides but no roof
• jimcrow Jim Crow (adj.), that is, segregated
• President Hoover Herbert Hoover, the thirty-first U.S. president, in office at the start of the Great Depression
• stoolies a stool pigeon, or informer
• trusty a convict who is considered trustworthy and granted special privileges
• venereal venereal disease, possibly syphilis or gonorrhea