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Scottsboro boys significant events

By tamarahcokam

  • Fight Frieght

    Fight Frieght
    march 25 1931 nine boys enter into a conflict with a group of white youths.
    (Significance: Before the fued started nothing really serious happened and because of that one fight the "blacks wining the fight" caused the whole problem. If the whites won the situation would have been a diffrent outcome. Well the whites were thrown off the train which caused the train to stopat paint rock. Leading to the blacks arrested. Following the Ruby Bates and Victoria Price accusation of rape.

  • Trials

    [“In January, 1932, the Alabama Supreme Court, by a 6-1 vote, affirmed all but one of the eight convictions and death sentences. The Court, 7 - 2, ruled that the right of the defendants under the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause to competent legal counsel had been denied by Alabama.There would have to be new trials. ](“http://socialistworker.org/2012/06/22/the-scottsboro-boys-case)The significance is that after the accusations the nine boys were charged with death sentence

  • Tension

    Tension
    “who were already on the train. When the whites lost, they complained to the stationmaster, and the nine Blacks were arrested.”
    Significance: The whole tension is centered around on how they blacks beat the whites that’s the other main reason for hatred in this case and a major source of the conflict.

  • The Attorneys

    The Attorneys
    The first day of the trial the boys get attorneys. There names were Stephen Roddy and Milo Moody. Milo Moody was a 70 year old man and couldnt really handle a case while Stephen Roddy wasnt just as good. The boys didnt get a fair chance with the two attorneys. The significance was that there was a bit of unfairness in the court room using those 2 attorneys to defend the boys, knowing good and well they wont have a chance winning with the two attorneys they were given.

  • The Lynch

    "After the train stops at paintrock" The boys are waited for by a group of almost 100 lynchers waiting to kill and harm the boys. This is significant because it shows the hatred and the racism towards the 9 boys. The lynchers where originally there because they heard about the fight. But then turned the cause around because of the false alligations of Ruby Bates and Victoria Price.Whiched made them angry including that the lynchers are ready to harm wether the story is true or not.

  • Sentence

    [“In January, 1932, the Alabama Supreme Court, by a 6 - 1 vote, affirmed all but one of the eight convictions and death sentences. The Court, 7 - 2, ruled that the right of the defendants under the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause to competent legal counsel had been denied by Alabama. There would have to be new trials.” ](“http://socialistworker.org/2012/06/22/the-scottsboro-boys-case)“In January, 1932, the Alabama Supreme Court, by a 6 - 1 vote, affirmed all but one of the eight convictions and death sentences. The Court, 7 - 2, ruled that the right of the defendants under the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause to competent legal counsel had been denied by Alabama. There would have to be new trials.” “http://socialistworker.org/2012/06/22/the-scottsboro-boys-case
    The significance is that after the accusations the nine boys were charged with death sentence

  • Evidence

    http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_acct.html “Haywood Patterson was one of her attackers. Prosecutor Knight's strategy on direct was to cover the essential facts in a condensed, unadorned way that would provide few opportunities for defense attorneys to expose contradictions with the more detailed (and implausible) story she told in the first”trials
    The significance is that the lawyers tried everything they could to hide evidence and key facts that involved the case to get the nine boys a death sentence.

  • State

    http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_acct.html “The state decided to press ahead with prosecutions as the defense tried to deal with its own internal problems.
    Significance: After all the clues and key evidence that the boys were guilty the state still wanted to go ahead with the prosecutions showing the racisms towards these young men

  • Groups

    http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_acct.html
    Roy Wright, for example, who at age twelve was the youngest of the nine Scottsboro BoysThe prosecution, fearing that a single trial might constitute reversible error, decided to try the defendants in groups of two or three -Significance: The state knew that if they trailed Roy W. That there will be major conflict and they still tried to go on.

  • Details

    http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_acct.html Prosecutor Knight's strategy on direct was to cover the essential facts in a condensed, unadorned way that would provide few opportunities for defense attorneys to expose contradictions with the more detailed story she told in the first”trials-The significance is that the lawyers tried everything they could to hide evidence.

  • Trials

    http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_acct.html “The state decided to press ahead with prosecutions as the defense tried to deal with its own internal problems. Two ILD lawyers in Nashville were arrested and charged with trying to bribe Victoria Price to change her testimony,Boys-Significance: After all the clues and key evidence that the boys were guilty the state still wanted to trial

  • Groups

    http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_acct.html“despite the prejudice such a trial might cause toRoy Wright, for example, who at age twelve was the youngest of the nine Scottsboro Boys. (The prosecution, fearing that a single trial might constitute reversible error, decided to try the defendants in groups of two or three-Significance: The state knew that if they trailed Roy W. That there

  • Tratiory

    [The boys (Andy Wright, Willie Roberson, Charles Weems, Ozie Powell, Olen Montgomery, and Eugene Williams) denied raping or even having seen the two girls. But three others, all who later claimed they did so because of beatings and threats, said that a gang rape by other defendants did occur. “The boys (Andy Wright, Willie Roberson, Charles Weems, Ozie Powell, Olen Montgomery, and Eugene Williams) denied raping or even having seen the two girls. But three others, all who later claimed they did so because of beatings and threats, said that a gang rape by other defendants did occur. ](“http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_acct.html)
    Significance: The beatings and threats became so severe that they lied against one another just to safe themselves.

  • Privacy

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    July, 1977 victoria Price's suit against NBC for its movie "Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys," which she claimed defamed her and invaded her privacy, is dismissed. Price dies five years later.
    Significance: It’s ironic how she wants privacy because she caused all this mess and took away privacy from nine men who didn’t do anything to her.