Tony Platt, Grave Matters: Excavating California's Buried Past Heyday, 2011
James Miller, Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial Princeton U. Press, 2009
The Scottsboro Boys at American Conservatory Theater
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Native American remains were routinely dug up and collected over a period of almost two centuries; by some estimates, one million skeletons were looted. How could this happen? And what role did museums, as well as academics based at places like UC Berkeley, play in these large-scale desecrations? Tony Platt has written an expose. Also, James A. Miller discusses the notorious case of the so-called Scottsboro Boys.Download program audio (mp3, 48.75 Mbytes)

