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A site dedicated to the explication of the trialsl of Scottsboro Boys in Alabam, 1931-1937. Chronology Famous American Trials . "The Scottsboro Boys" Trials . 1931 - 1937...
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The case of the Scottsboro Boys arose in Scottsboro, Alabama during the 1930s, when nine black youths, ranging in age from twelve to nineteen, were falsely accused of raping two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. Although repeatedly...
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The Scottsboro Boys (the young men were named after the Alabama town where they were tried for the first time) ranged in age from 13 to 21. They were: Roy Wright, 13, Eugene Williams, 13, Andy Wright, 17, Haywood Patterson, 17, Olin Montgomery, 17, Willie Roberson, 17, Ozzie Powell, 16, Charles Weems, 21 and Clarence...
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THE TRIALS OF "THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS" The defense lawyers demonstrated their incompetence in many ways. They expressed a willingness to have all nine defendants tried together, despite the prejudice such a trial might cause to Roy Wright, for example, who at age twelve was the youngest of the nine Scottsboro Boys.
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In 1931, two white women stepped from a box car in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. The trial of the nine falsely accused teens would draw North and South into their...
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The Supreme Court gets case after case in the 1920s and the 1930s of the most grotesque brutality against blacks meted out by Southern sheriffs and Southern justice and all that sort of thing -- the Scottsboro boys cases.
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Although the ILD did not win the defendants' unconditional release, its campaign to "Free the Scottsboro Boys" had tremendous legal and political implications during the early 1930s. For example, in one of the ILD's many appeals, a 1935 U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the defendant's constitutional rights were violated...
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That night, a mob gathered outside the jail, but the governor sent in the National Guard to protect the young men who would come to be known as the Scottsboro Boys. The Scottsboro boys go on trial for the first time.
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You may either visit the entire section of The Scottsboro Trials by using the arrows on the bottom of each page or go to a specific page by following one of the links below.
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Tom Robinson's trial bears striking parallels to the "Scottsboro Trial," one of the most famous-or infamous-court cases in American history. A study of the Scottsboro trials will sharpen the reader's understanding of To Kill a Mockingbird.
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