Scottsboro Boys By caleb.bratager Mar 25, 1931 Nine black boys are accused or fighting white people and raping two white women Mar 26, 1931 Lynch mob comes for the boys and almos kills them Mar 30, 1931 The trial starts Apr 9, 1931 All boys are gulity and face death Mar 24, 1932 Alabama Supreme Court votes a retrial Period: Jan 1, 1933 to Jan 31, 1933 Samuel Lebowitz is chosen for the defense Mar 27, 1933 The trials begin for the second time Apr 6, 1933 Ruby Bates testifies for the defense Apr 9, 1933 Haywood Patterson is sentenced for death again Apr 9, 1933 Haywood Patterson found guilty of murder again Apr 18, 1933 Judge Horton postpones case because of tensions in the touwn May 7, 1933 There are protests in Washington Jun 22, 1933 There will be a new trial but under a new judge Jan 23, 1936 Haywood Patterson is sentenced to 75 years in prison Jan 24, 1936 Ozzie Powell gets shot in the head Apr 19, 2013 All Scottsboro boys are pardoned
