The Scottsboro Boys, nine Black teenagers accused of raping two white women on a train near Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931, endured several lengthy court trials.
Scottsboro Boys Rape Case Eight black boys have been arrested on charges of rape. Their names are Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Haywood Patterson, Olen Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Willie Roberson, Eugene Williams, and Andy Wright. The first trial has ended with the predictable verdict of guilty ...
The pardons were issued to Charles Weems, John Andy Wright and Haywood Patterson, the last of the nine who had been accused in the 1931 rape case, said Cook. “It has taken 82 years to clear the names of the Scottsboro Boys,” said Sheila Washington, founder and director of the Scottsbo...
July 12:Victoria Price sues NBC for defamation and invasion of privacy after its broadcast ofJudge Horton and the Scottsboro Boysairs. Her claim, however, is dismissed. 1989 January 23:Clarence Norris dies. He is the last surviving of the Scottsboro Boys....
In the story of the Scottsboro Boys, the boys were arrested due to a brawl with a couple of white men. They were tried for fighting, but also were tried for allegedly raping two females by the names of Ruby Bates and Victoria Price (Linder, “The Trials Of The Scottsboro Boys”) As ...
1931. Over the course of the two decades that followed, the struggle for justice of the "Scottsboro Boys," as the black teens were called, madecelebrities3out of anonymities, launched and ended careers, wasted lives, produced heroes, opened southern juries to blacks,exacerbated4sectionalstrife5...
Nine captured blacks, soon to be called "The Scottsboro Boys," were tied together with plow11 line, loaded on a flatback truck, and taken to a jail in Scottsboro. Also greeted by the posse in Paint Rock were two millworkers from Huntsville, Victoria Price and Ruby12 Bates. One or the...
When Harper Lee was writing about the trial of Tom Robinson in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” she had a very real case to look to for inspiration. The trial of the Scottsboro Boys was a world renowned case in the 1930’s in which nine black youths were accused of raping to white girls ...