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NIne black men got in a fight with white men near Point Rock, Alabama and got arrested for asault. during the fight Victoria Price and Ruby Bates accused the Scottsboro boys of rape.
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Grand Jury indicts Scottsboro boys
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National Orginazations take up The Scottsboro Boys trial.The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the International Labor Defense (I.L.D.) defend the "Scottsboro Boys" and raise money for their defense.
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"Clarence Norris and Charlie Weems are tried, convicted, and sentenced to death." (Before Judge A. E. Hawkins)
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Haywood Patterson is tried, convicted and recieves the death sentence.
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"Olen Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Willie Roberson, Eugene Williams, and Andy Wright are tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. The case against Roy Wright, aged 13, ends in a hung jury when 11 jurors seek a death sentence, and one votes for life imprisonment."
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NAACP stops defending the Scottsboro Boys in their case.
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A letter Ruby bates wrote--to a boyfriend--is found and surfaced that admits that she never was raped.
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The Alabama Supreme court gives Eugene Willams a new trial because he was a "juvenile" at the time he was convicted.
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In Ozie Powell's supreme court trial v. Alabama, he was convicted but it was overturned because there werent any black jurors not giving him equal protection under the law- Fourteenth Admendent.rules
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They discover evidence from Victoria Price and Ruby Bates that defends the Scottsboro boys and also starts proving that the Boys did not do what they were accused of. EDIT!!!!
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The youngest of the boys--Eugene Williams, and Roy Wright-- Get changed over to Juvenile Court.
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Nashville P.D arrest 2 lawyers who tried to bribe victoria bates with 1,500 dollars to change her position in her testimony. They were never convicted.
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Haywood Patterson gets found guilty and gets sentenced to 75 years in prison.
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Andy Wright gets convicted and sentenced to 99 years in prison.
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Charlie Weems trial ended in conviction and he gets sentenced to 75 years in prison.
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Ozie Powell's rape charges get dropped but is sentenced to 20 years after pleading guilty to assaulting Bialock. Olen Montgomery, willie Roberson, Eugene Williams, and Roy Wright's rape charges are dropped.
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Alabam's Supreme confirms the sentences given to Norris, Andy Wright and Weems in June. But July Governer Graves changes Norris' death sentence to life imprisonment.
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Weems gets released on parole.
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A. Wright and Norris both get released on parole.
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Wright and Norris violate their parole by leaving Alabama and return to jail. Norris in October 1944. Wright in October 1946.
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Powell is realeased on parole.
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Norris gets released on parole again.
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Haywood Patterson escapes from prison.
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Haywood Patterson gets arrested by the FBI in Detriot. The Governor refuses to release him back to Alabama. So Alabama gives up on trying to return him bakc to them. In December Patterson gets charged with murder after a barroom brawl.
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In September of 1951 Patterson is convicted with manslaughter and gets sentenced to 6-15 years in prison In August Patterson dies because of cancer.
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Roy Wright passes away.
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The last of the Scottsboro boys, Clarence Norris, passes away.
