Scottsboro boys

Scottsboro Boys

  • Nine black boys are accused or fighting white people and raping two white women

  • Lynch mob comes for the boys and almos kills them

  • The trial starts

  • All boys are gulity and face death

  • Alabama Supreme Court votes a retrial

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    Samuel Lebowitz is chosen for the defense

  • The trials begin for the second time

  • Ruby Bates testifies for the defense

  • Haywood Patterson is sentenced for death again

  • Haywood Patterson found guilty of murder again

  • Judge Horton postpones case because of tensions in the touwn

  • There are protests in Washington

  • There will be a new trial but under a new judge

  • Haywood Patterson is sentenced to 75 years in prison

  • Ozzie Powell gets shot in the head

  • All Scottsboro boys are pardoned