SCOTTSBORO BOYS: The Scottsboro Boys were nine young black men, falsely accused of raping two white women on board a train near Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931. Convicted and facing execution, the case of Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell, Clarence Norris, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Haywood Patterson, Eugene Williams, and Andrew and Leroy Wright sparked international demonstrations and succeeded in both highlighting the racism of the American legal system and in overturning the conviction.
Scottsboro Boys: protest advertisement
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Scottsboro Case
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The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys
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The Scottsboro Boys in prison, 1933, with their attorney, Stephen Roddy; from left, Olen Montgomery, Clarence Norris, Willie Roberson, Andrew Wright, Ozie Powell, Eugene Williams, Charley Weems, Roy Wright, and Haywood Patterson (seated).
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Last of the Scottsboro Boys get justice long
delayed: pardons
The Scottsboro Boys in jail, 1931
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Haywood Patterson, one of the Scottsboro Boys, on trial in Alabama, with lawyer Samuel Leibowitz, 1933.
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