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The Scottsboros Boys were arrested and charged with rape.
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Scottsboro boys are nearly lynched by crowd of over 100 gathered around Scottsboro's jail.
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Grand jury indicts the nine Scottsboro boys for rape
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Trials begin in Scottboro before Judge A. E. Hawkins
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Executions are stayed pending appeal to Alabama Supreme Court.
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NAACP withdraws from case.
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Ruby Bates denies she was raped in a letter to Earl Streetman, but yet trials were contiuned.
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The U. S. Supreme Court announces that it will review the Scottsboro cases.
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Haywood Patterson found guilty by jury and sentenced to death in the electric chair
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Judge Horton postpones the trials of the other Scottsboro boys because of dangerously high local tensions.
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Roy Wright, Eugene Williams, Olen Montgomery and Willie Roberson were released after all charges were dropped against them
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The U.S. Supreme Court declines to review the Patterson and Norris convictions.
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Clarence Norris's death sentence is reduced to life in prison by Governor Graves.
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Haywood Patterson escapes from prison
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Patterson is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 6 to 15 years. He dies of cancer less than a year later
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The last Scottsboro died in 1989 at the age of 76.