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Nine black teenage boys are riding a train to Memphis to look for work.
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A white boy stepped on one of the hands of a black boy and the black boys fight the white boys and the black boys win the fight.
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Ruby Bates and Victoria Price were riding the train and since the fight broke out, word spread that there was a mob of 100 people were waiting for the boys and they didn't want to be seen riding the train so they said that the boys had raped them.
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The Grand Jury says that the nine Scottsboro Boys are guilty and they are convicted of rape.
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The Scottsboro boys hear about the execution of Willie Stokes, and many of the boys report having sleepless nights and nightmares.
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Ruby Bates tells Earl Streetman that she denies being raped through a letter.
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The Supreme Court says that they will take care of the trials and they will review them.
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Haywood Patterson is found guilty by the jury and is sentenced to death in the electric chair.
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Judge Horton takes away Haywood Pattersons conviction and grants him a new trial.
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Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris are tried for rape in Judge William Callahan's court and they are convicted and sentenced to death.
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Two laywers are charged with an attempt to bribe Victoria price to change her story.
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The Scottsboro Defense Committee was formed to provide a united defense for the Scottsboro defendants.
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Ozzie Powell gets shot in the head by Sheriff Jay Sandlin and is rushed to the hospital immediately because he attacked Deputy Sheriff Edgar Blalock.
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Roy Wright, Eugene Williams, Olen Montgomery and Willie Roberson were all set free after all of there charges have been dropped and they were proven innocent
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Clarence Norris' death sentence was reduced to just life in prison by Governer Graves
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Clarence Norris has to return back to prison.
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Haywood Patterson escapes from Kilby Prison but is later found by the FBI.
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Clarence Norris was the last of the Scottsboro boys to survive and he dies on Jan 23, 1989.