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The Scottsboro boys are accused of rape
A fight breaks out on a train between a group of black boys and white boys, along with two white girls. After the black boys force the whites off the train the white boys tell the stationmaster they were attacked and the two white girls(Victoria Price and Ruby Bates) claim that they were raped. The boys are arrested and taking in to custody -
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The scottsboro boys
Cite works:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
http://scottsboroboysandintolerance.weebly.com/process.html
https://www.google.com/search?q=scottsboro boys trial&bav=on.2,or.&bvm=bv.52434380,d.dmg,pv.xjs.s.en_US.RJfod4swqLE.O&biw=1440&bih=719&dpr=1&wrapid=tlif137967889187211&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=qzo8UtLIN_Wn4AO3t4CABA -
Scottsboro boys almost lynched
Scottsboro boys are nearly lynched by crowd of over 100 gathered around Scottsboro's jail. -
Grand jury indicts scottsboro boys
Grand jury indicts the nine Scottsboro boys for rape. -
The NAACP and ILD begin battles for custody (continues until december)
NAACP and International Labor Defense (ILD) battle for the right to represent the Scottsboro boys. -
Trials begin
Trials begin in Scottboro before Judge A. E. Hawkins. -
NAACP and ILD have fought since April for custody of the oys
NAACP and International Labor Defense (ILD) battle for the right to represent the Scottsboro boys. -
NAACP gives up on boys
NAACP withdraws from case, leaving the boys at the mercy of the government. -
The Alabama supreme court reversed Eugene Williams conviction
Alabama Supreme Court, by a vote of 6-1, affirms the convictions of seven of the boys. The conviction of Eugene Williams is reversed on the grounds that he was a juvenile under state law in 1931. -
U.S. supreme court becomes involves
The U. S. Supreme Court announces that it will review the Scottsboro cases. -
Supreme court reverses convinctions in the Powell vs. Alabama case
The Supreme Court, by a vote of 7-2, reverses the convictions of the Scottsboro boys in Powell vs. Alabama. Grounds for reversal are that Alabama failed to provide adequate assistance of counsel as required by the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. -
Haywood Patterson found guilty at trial
Haywood Patterson was found guilty by jury and sentenced to death by eletric chair -
March on Washington
In one of many protests around the nation, thousands march in Washington protesting the Alabama trials. -
Retrial declared
Judge Horton sets aside Haywood Patterson's conviction and grants a new trial. -
The group of white men are released from prison
Toy wright, Eugene Williams, Olen Montgomery and Willie Roberson were released after all the charges were dropped against them. -
Governor Graves denies all pardon applications
Governor Graves denies to pardon any of the scottsboro boys after the pardon interviews go horribly wrong. First, Hayword Patterson is searched and found carrying a knife giving authorities reason to beleive the boys are a danger. Second, brain-damaged Ozie Powell refused to answer Graves questions, saying "I don't want to say nothing to you." Third, according to Graves' account, Clarence Norris threatened to kill Haywood Patterson, with whom he had been feuding bitterly, after his release
