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Two white males and two females were walking on a train and one stepped on Haywood Patterson's hand. A stone-throwing fight between the group of boys and Patterson's group and won the fight. All but one was forced off the train and those who were off told the stationmaster in Stevenson that the black group attacked him and his comrades. The group of African American boys were then arrested on the train, and eventually would become the Scottsboro Boys.
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The Scottsboro boys are nearly lynched by a crowd of 100 people that were gathered around Scottsboro's jail.
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Grand jury charges the nine Scottsboro boys for rape.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the International Labor Defense battle for the right to represent the Scottsboro boys. This goes on until January in 1932.
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The boys are tried and sentenced to death while the Scottsboro boys protest against their sentences, but fail. The trial of Roy Wright ends in a mistrial when some jurors hold out for a death sentence even though the prosecution asked for life imprisonment.
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NAACP withdraws from the case.
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Ruby Bates, in a letter, denies that she was raped.
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Alabama Supreme Court, by a vote of 6-1, affirms the convictions of seven of the boys.
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The conviction of Eugene Williams is reversed on the grounds because he was too young.
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The Supreme Court, by a vote of 7-2, reverses the convictions of the Scottsboro boys in Powell vs. Alabama. Alabama failed to provide factual assistance of counsel as required by the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
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Haywood Patterson found guilty by jury and sentenced to death in the electric chair.
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In one of many protests around the nation, thousands march in Washington protesting the Alabama trials.
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Judge Horton sets aside Haywood Patterson's conviction and grants a new trial.
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Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris are tried by Judge William Callahan for rape, convicted, and sentenced to death, again.
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The U.S. Supreme Court overturns the convictions of Norris and Patterson because African Americans were excluded from sitting on the juries in their trials.
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Haywood Patterson is convicted for a fourth time of rape and is sentenced to 75 years in prison.
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Ozie Powell, one of the Scottsboro boys, is shot in the head by Sheriff Jay Sandlin while attacking Deputy Sheriff Edgar Blalock.
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Roy Wright, Eugene Williams, Olen Montgomery and Willie Roberson were released after all charges are dropped against them.
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All of the rest of the Scottsboro Boys are paroled from the original case somewhere in between June and July.
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