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CitationOn March 25th a gigantic riot breaks out over the 9 scotsboro boys arrest. The 9 boys were charged with criminal assualt on a women.
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citationThe 2 Girls Ruby Bates and Vicoria Price claim that they boarded the train and that they were talking to 7 boys when a gang of 12-15 African Americans came and attacked them.
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CitationOn this day they were all thrown into a county jail awaiting their trial.
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citation8 of the 9 Scotsboro Boys (SB) are charged with Death Sentences, protest their charges.
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citationThey are entering their first trial and are found guilty by the jury.
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She denies ever being raped the Boys in a letter sent to her boyfriend.
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The boys are found guilty 6-1 by the jury.
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citationU.S Supreme Court accepts the hearing of the Scottsboro Boys re-trial
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On this date they begin the retrial for the boys the judges name was James Horton.
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CitationRuby Bates decidese to be a suprise defendent of the Boys claiming she was never raped by them.
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citationPatterson the oldest of the bots is sentenced to death by electric chair by Judge Horton.
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Judge Horton re-ran for Judge and was not re elected.
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Instead of recieving death by electric chair Patterson is sentenced to 75 years this was a compromise between the foreman and the jury.
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citationThings begin to change although Patterson's, Wright's, Weems are confronted with convictions, Powell's rape charges are dropped (although he is still facing 20 years over assualt) and the other 4 boys Roberson, Montgomery, Williams, And Wright are no longer being charged.
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In July Patterson succesfully escapes from the prison he was held in. He was Eventually found by the FBI but was not sent back to Alabama.
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Patterson is charged with murder after getting in a bar fight and killing someone. He is sentenced to 6-15 years in jail.
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Patterson is killed by cancer. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/
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Sometime in August of 1959 Roy Wright dies.
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The last of the boys Clarence Norris Dies.
