Scope and arrangement
The Ted Poston Scrapbook contains newspaper articles by journalist Ted Poston, for four series: "Dixie's Fight for Freedom" (1959) called the Little Scottsboro Case concerning three African-American youth convicted of raping a white woman in Tavares, Florida in 1949, "Nine Kids Who Dared: Human Drama in Little Rock" (1957), "Inside the Policy Racket" focusing on the Harlem numbers racket (1960), and "Prejudice and Progress in New York," n.d., all published by the New York Post. Ted Poston won the George Polk journalism award for the rape case article and was nominated for additional awards for other articles.