File:Bates, Ruby.jpg

Fair use for 'Ruby Bates'
Though this image is from a web site subject to copyright, I feel its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because: The license would be fair-use for person a who is dead.
 * 1) The web page says the author of that web site, a law professor, does not own the photo, has the permission of no one to use it and posts it himself under a "fair use" rationale.
 * 2) It is a famous photograph of a historical figure who was the alleged victim and star defense witness in the famous "Scottsboro Boys" case.
 * 3) She is an important historical figures who was testifying in a public court room when this photo was taken.
 * 4) The person in that photo has been dead for years.
 * 5) Photo has low resolution and odd shading
 * 6) Author unknown. Copyright for web site containing photo found at http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
 * 7) The photo is being used for identification of the person it depicts, especially important to the article on the Scottsboro Boys that talks about her extensively.
 * 8) The photo depicts her posture on the stand as the all-white jury would have seen her.
 * 9) The photo shows Ruby Bates on the stand at the Decatur retrial.
 * 10) This photo shows her in her fancy New York wardrobe bought by the Communist Party and ridiculed by the prosecution.
 * 11) It is being used in the article on the Scottsboro Boys which describes her testimony at the Decatur trial at length the importance of the fancy New York clothes she was wearing had in destroying her credibility with the all-white Alabama jury in the 1930s Jim Crow South.

Description
A front-on view of alleged rape victim and surprise defense witness in her fancy New York wardrobe, bought by the Communist party, as she testified in Decatur "reaking of the North". It will be used in the article on the Scottsboro Boys