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On this day, in Scottsboro nine African-American men where accused of raping two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, on a train.
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In the span of three days, eight of the men where said to be guilt in the trail.
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Ruby Bates wrote a letter to her boyfriend and said that she did not get raped by the Scottsboro boys.
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Haywood Patterson's second trial begins in Decatur before judge James Horton.
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Haywood has his second trail today
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Haywood Patterson is sentenced to be killed by electric chair.
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The cases are removed from Judge Horton's court into Judge William Callahan's court
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Conviction of Haywood Patterson is upheld by the Alabama Supreme Court.
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Clarence Norris is convicted of rape and sentenced to death. Andy Wright is convicted and sentenced to 99 years for rape. Charlie Weems is convicted and sentenced to 75 years. Ozzie Powell pleads guilty to assaulting the sheriff and is sentenced to 20 years.
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Alabama Supreme Court upholds the death sentence for Clarence Norris.
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Charlie Weems, Andy Wright, Norris, and Ozzie Powell were all paroled. Some were paroled several different times between september 1943 and June 1950.
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Andy Wright is returned to prison.
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Haywood Patterson esaped prison.
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Patterson is involved in a barroom fight resulting in the death of another man. Haywood is charged with murder
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Patterson is charged of manslaughter and is sentenced to 6 to 15 years in jail. He dies of cancer less than a year later.
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Victoria Price suied NBC for its movie "Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys,". She claimed it defamed her and invaded her privacy, It was dismissed. Price dies five years later.
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Clarence Norris dies at the age of 76. he was the last living Scottsboro boy.
