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Nine black teenagers ages 13 to 19 were traveling on a freight train, when a fight broke out and the boys beat up a white guy , then got accused of rapibng to white women.
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The scottsboro boys are taken to jail and are approached by a crowd of at least 100 people.
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Scottsboro boys are indicted for rape.
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Excutions are pending for the scottsboro boys at this point.
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The day set for scottsboros execution, there listening in on the executrions of Willie Stocks.
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Ruby bates denies that she was raped.
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The 14th amendment says that if you cant afford an attorney one will be provided for you, in this case grounds were reversed because alabma failed to give the scottsboro boys the right attorney they needed.
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Haywood Patterson's second trial begins.
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Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris are tried for rape, convicted and sentenced to death.
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Roy Wright, Eugene Williams, Olen Montgomery, and Willie Robinson got all charges dropped and got released.
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The boys get interviewed by Governor Graves, who eventually denies all pardon applications.
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Haywood patterson escapes from prison and Fbi arrest him two years later.
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Patterson is involved in a barroom fight that kills another man and on this day he gets sentenced 6 to 15 years for the fight, He dies from cancer a year after this.
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Victoria sues NBC for the movie that the made involving the life and trial of the scottsboro boys and Judge Horton, she claims that it invaded her privacy.
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The last scotsboro boy, Clarence Norris dies at age 76.
