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After a white man steped on a blacks hand a large fight of the races broke out
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a mob that was angry at the 10 black boys that "raped" the girls
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the grand jury indicts the scottboro boys
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The United States Supreme Court decides to hear the case
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the first of the 10 executions happen to Willie Stokes
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Ruby bates in letter form denies that she was raped
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Noted attorney Samuel Leibowitz takes the case for the IDL.
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Haywood Patterson tried and found guilty and sentenced to death by electric chair
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Clarence Norris convicted of rape sentenced to death
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A denial of parole is recommended for Patterson and Powell by an Alabama parole board.
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this was the span of time the boys were in jail
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Patterson escapes from prison and travels to Detroit.
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Patterson is caught and arrested by the FBI in Detroit. However, the governor of Michigan does not extradite Patterson to Alabama.
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Patterson dies of cancer while serving time in prison.
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last liveing boy dies at 77 from alzimers
