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The boys stop train in Paint Rock, Alabama. Boys are arrested on assault charges. Rape charges are also made against all of them by Victoria Price and Ruby Bates.
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Scottsboro boys are almost lynched by a large crowd at the scottscoro jail
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Grand jury indicts the nine Scottsboro boys for rape
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Trials begin in Scottboro before Judge A. E. Hawkins.
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Ruby Bates send a letter to Earl Streetman in which she denies she was raped.
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Haywood Patterson found guilty by jury and sentenced to death in the electric chair.
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Haywood Patterson is accused of rape for the fourth time and he is centenced to 75 years in jail
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Roy Wright, Eugene Williams, Olen Montgomery and Willie Roberson were released from jail because all the charges were dropped against them .
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Instead of his death penalty it is reduced to life in prison for Clarence Norris
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Governor Graves interviews Scottsboro boys.
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The man accused of rape for the fourth time, Haywood Patterson escapes from prison.
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Mr. Haywood is part of a barroom fight resulting in a death of and other man Haywood is charged with murder
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Patterson is charged with manslaughter and sentenced to 6 to 15 years. He dies of cancer less than a year late
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Clarence Norris, the last surviving Scottsboro boy, dies at age 76.
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Alabama Governor Robert Bentley pardons all nine Scottsboro Boys.
