Word: scottsboro
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DIED. Muriel Rukeyser, 66, American poet of social protest; of a heart attack; in New York City. After dropping out of Vassar in 1932, she published a poem on the Scottsboro trial (in which nine black Alabama youths were accused of raping two white girls) that foreshadowed a concern with injustice that remained the theme of her poetry and her life. Though critics complained that her "message became more important to her than [its] expression," when her Collected Poems appeared in 1978 they also praised her devotion to the dissident muse named in her first book, Theory of Flight...