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the fight on the train
Afight breaks out between white and black young men who are riding as hoboes on a Southern Railroad freight train. The train is stopped by an angry posse in Paint Rock, Alabama, and nine black youths are arrested for assault. Rape charges are addedto their charges because two girls said they raped them. -
The protection mission
Governor Miller in turn calls in the National Guard to protect the jail and its prisoners from a lynch mob. -
names, ages, and things about the boy's
nine black teenagers were traveling on a freight train headed for Memphis, hoping to find work. Eugene Williams and Roy Wright were 13. Roy, who had never been away from home, was accompanied by his brother Andy, 19. Olen Montgomery, 18, almost blind, hoped to buy glasses with the wages he would find. The oldest, Charlie Weems, was 19. -
the revenge plan
The men who had been thrown out of the car telegraphed ahead to Paint Rock. When the train arrived there a Sheriff's posse surrounded the car and captured the Negroes after a short fight. -
the first sayings
Before the Judge A. E. Hawkins, Clarence Norris and Charlie Weems are tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. -
Roy Wright trial
The case against Roy Wright, aged 13, ends in a decision jury when 11 jurors seek a death sentence, and one votes for life imprisonment. -
Communists group
Communist newspapers, to which may be attributed responsibility for recent mob attacks on the American Consulates at Dresden and Leipzig, are making a capital of the Scottsboro convictions. They are appealing to Reds everywhere to "save the victims of judicial murder," saying that the Negroes are innocent of the crimes for which they were sentenced. -
The lie
A letter from Ruby Bates to a boyfriend comes up. In it, she denies having been raped. -
It goes big
The United States Supreme Court agrees to hear the case and decide if they ar guilty. -
The illeagal movement
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the defendants were denied the right to counsel, which violated their right to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment. -
the second trial of Patterson
Patterson is found guilty and sentenced to death by electric chair. -
The end for two of the people
The trials of Patterson and Norris end in death sentences for both. He forgets to explain to Patterson's jury how to render a not guilty verdict and neglects to ask the mercy of God upon Norris's soul. -
The big escape
Haywood Patterson escapes from prison. -
The end to Victoria Price
Victoria Price files a lawsuit against NBC for defamation and invasion of privacy after the broadcast of Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys ...her claim is dismissed. -
THE END
Clarence Norris, the last of the Scottsboro Boys dies.
