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The So Called "Victims"
This is the NY Times ArticlePictures From WikipediaThese are the women that say they were raped and their names are Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. -
It All Starts Here
Photo from Home Pagehref='http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/29/arts/scottsboro-70-years-later-still-notorious-still-painful.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm' >This is the link Got my Info From</a>On March 25, 1931, Nine African Americans got on a train to go to memphis and start a new life. there was two white women and a few white men. the whites stepped on their hands a fight occured. The blacks beat the whites. When the cops came the girls claimed they were raped and the black men went to jail almost being lynched. -
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Scottsboro Boys Trials
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The First Trial
Got photos From HereNY TimesIt has been twelve days sice they were accused of rape and now it is their first trial out of many more to come. The trials were not in their favor -
Their Punishment
Photo from PBSThe info is from the Law WebsiteOn this day eight of the nine scottsboro boys were put on death row while the ninth (Roy Wright) was sentenced life in prison.
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The First Execution
Photo and date from Law websiteWillie Stokes is executed and leaves the other men mentally scard and sleepless from the stories they heard about the execution. -
Ruby Bates Confess
Photo and Info from PBS but i used my own wordsThe "victim" Ruby Bates writes in a letter saying that she was not raped. That evidence could have changed the course of the trial if everyone was not racist. -
STILL!?!
Law WebsiteThe letter did not matter to the supreme court, they still believed that they raped them but it allowed those that were still alive to get re-tried. -
Over and Over and Over Again
PBSThe Scottsboro Boys were retried but even with the "victims" statement which was the truth, racism still took over the court room. Over the years they get questioned and the outcome is still the same just because of the color of their skin. Then Eugene Williams is given a new trial because he was a juvenile when he got his conviction. -
Supreme Court Reviews Case
Image from Wikipediainfo from Law websiteThe U. S. Supreme Court looks over the scottsboro boys case. -
Still Guilty
Photo from this linkLaw Website InfoHaywood Patterson was declared guilty and was executed by the electric chair. -
So Close
PBSJudge Horton puts a death sentence for patterson but suspends it because of another case. Then the other case gets post poned because the town gets angry and they demands that the scottsboro boys trial is back on. -
Patterson Punishment
Info from PBSPhoto From WikipediaHaywood Patterson is sentenced 74 years in prison and will never see the light of day AGAAAAAIIIIIN!!!!!!! -
American Psycho
Photo from PhotoBucketPBS WebsiteWhile Ozie Powell was being sent back to Birmingham Jail he pulled out a knife and slit open an officers throat.He was then shot in the head and some how survived. -
Haywood Patterson
PBS info about person not TimelineHaywood Patterson was attacked in prison and stabbed multiple times and almost died. Years later he die's in prison from cancer -
Finally Free (In a Way)
Pictures is from project home pageLaw WebsiteLast year their trial was finally exterminated and all charges were removed. At the same time all nine of them has already died and spent all of their lives behind bars for something they did not even do. So if you ever become a judge, don't judge a book by it's cover.
