Scapegoat: Prejudice/politics/prison
- ISBN-10
- 0874260221
- ISBN-13
- 9780874260229
- Series
- Scapegoat
- Pages
- 334
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1970
- Publisher
- Whitmore Publishing Company
- Author
- Boyd E. Payton
Description
Henderson, North Carolina was in 1959 the scene of one of the country's ugliest and most protracted labor strikes, brought about by the attempt of the Harriet-Henderson Cotton Mills to break the back of the Textile Workers Union in that area. Many injustices were done to union members and officials, but the most outrageous was the trumped-up charge of conspiracy to dynamite a textile mill that put Boyd Payton, an International Vice President of the union behind bars. Scapegoat tells the complete story of the strike, of Boyd Payton's imprisonment, and of his ultimate full pardon. Before the pardon came, Payton spent an agonizing nine months in jail, witnessing numerous acts of sadism and cruelty that most people would attribute to the Dark Ages. Most men in Payton's position would have been filled with anger and despair, justifiably so. But he turned not inward, but toward his fellow prisoners. He taught them, advised them, became respected among them. And he observed..."--Jacket
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