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Victoria Price and Ruby Bates were on a train and claimed that nine boys raped them on the train.
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The nine scottsboro boys attended thier first trial.
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Ruby bates admitts she was not raped on the train by the nine boys.
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Samuel Leibowitz defends the Scottsboro boys in a new trial.
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The Alabama Supreme Court upholds seven of the eight convictions made.
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Haywood Patternson is found gulity in the seconf trial for the scottsboro boys rape.
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The trials of the other eight Scottsboro boys are postponed because of dangerously high local tensions
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Thousands of people prtested against Alabama trials.
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Judge Horton grants Haywood Patterson another trial.
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US Supreme Court overturn Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris conviction because there were no black people on the jury.
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Haywood Patterson was convicted for a fourth time but is sentenced 75 years, this is the first time a black man is charged with rape and was not given death.
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Ozie Powell was shot in the head and will suffer brain damage, after fighting with two cops.
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Clarence Norris is convicted of rape and sentenced to death, his sentence is later changeed to life in jail.
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Charlie Weems is given the sentences of 105 years in prison after being convicted of rape.
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Four of the nine boys who were convicted of rape: Willie Roberson, Olen Montgomery, Eugene Williams,,and Roy Wright; were given no prison time and pleaded innocent.