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Scottsboro Boys

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  • Arrested for rape

    Arrested for rape

    citationthe charges that were against the boys was rape, and charges of assult

  • lynched by crowd

    a crowd of over 100 people alomst lynched the boys

  • The trials

    citationJudge A.E. Hawkins was the judge in the Scottsboro trial

  • NAACP

    citationthe NAACP withdraws from the case

  • The letter

    citationRuby Bates sent a letter to Earl Streetman saying she was never raped

  • Postpones trial

    citationJudge Horton postpones a trial because of the high tensions

  • People protest

    citationpeople around the country protest against the Alabama trials
  • Tried for rape

    Tried for rape

    citationHaywood Patterson and Clarence Norris are convicted and tried for rape and sentenced to death

  • Committee is organized

    citationthe Scottsboro Defense Committee is organized

  • Conviction of Haywood

    citationthe conviction of Haywood Patterson is upheld by the Alabama Supreme Court

  • Charges are dropped

    all charges are dropped on Roy Wright, Eugene Williams, Olen Montgomery and Willie Roberson and were released.

  • Supreme Court declines

    citationThe U.S Supreme Court refuses to review the Norris and Patterson convictions

  • The death sentence

    citationthe Alabama Supreme puts Norris and Patterson on the death sentence

  • Death sentence is reduced

    citationthe death sentence is reduced against Norris and is reduced to life in prison

  • Pardoning

    citationthe Governor of Alabama Robert Bentley signs a legislation offically pardoning and exonerating all nine Scottsboro Boys