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Scottsboro Boys Arrested
Scottsboro Boys stopped off of Southern Railroad train and are arrested for supposedly assaulting and raping Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/ Picture: http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/557821 -
Mob Attacks Scottsboro Boys
The Scottsboro Boys are nearly lynched by a mob of 100 people around the Scottsboro jail. The crowd is stopped by the National Guard. http://www.workers.org/articles/2012/12/14/scottsboro-boys-a-1931-case-of-legal-lynching-revisited/ Picture: http://blackamericaweb.com/2013/02/10/little-known-black-history-fact-the-case-of-the-scottsboro-boys/ -
The Scottsboro Boys Trial
The trials of the Scottsboro Boys end. Eight of the boys, Charles Weem, Clarence Norris, Andy Wright, Haywood Patterson, Ozzie Powell, Olen Montgomery, Eugene Williams, and Willie Roberson. The youngest of the boys, Roy Wright, was given a life sentence. Their assigned lawyers, Milo Moody and Steve Roddy were incompetent, which was a clear example of the unfairness of the trial. http://www.sanmarcos.net/ana/class/eng2/scottsboro10th.html
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Trials of Scottsboro Boys Take Place
The trials of all the Scottsboro Boys end in death sentences for all the boys. However, their lawyers, Milo Moody and Steve Roddy did not know anything about law. Their Attorney was a Real Estate Agent. http://www.sanmarcos.net/ana/class/eng2/scottsboro10th.html -
Appeal is Made to Alabama Supreme Court
The Scottsboro Boys make an appeal to the Alabame Supreme court in hopes that the injustice of the previous court ruling would be reversed. This also postpones the execution of the Scottsboro Boys, http://yellowhammernews.com/blog/alabama-supreme-court-undermines-property-rights/ http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html -
Ruby Bates Admits She Was Not Raped
Ruby Bates writes a letter in which she states she was not raped. However, this was not enough to completely overturn the decision because of the racism in the state at the time. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/filmmore/ps_bates.html Picture: http://scottsboroboystrial.blogspot.com/2010/05/ruby-bates-and-victoria-price.html -
Alabama Supreme Court Declares Convictions Were Correct
The Alabama Supreme Court votes 6 to 1, supporting the decision made on the first trials. However, the Alabama Supreme Court did overturn the decision for Eugene Williams, the second youngest of the Scottsboro Boys. Picture and information from: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/peopleevents/p_williams.html -
Powell v. Alabama
The United States Supreme Court reviewed the case and reversed the decision of the Alabama Supreme Court because the nine Scottsboro Boys were not treated fairly in court, only meeting their lawyers a day before the case. This violated the 5th and 14th amendment of the Constitution. http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1932/1932_98 Picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_v._Alabama -
Two Scottsboro Boys Tried
Despite the United States Supreme Court's intervention, Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris were tried once again for rape, a direct violation of the 5th amendment. However, they were tried under a different judge, Judge Callahan, as the previous Judge lost re-election. The two boys were convicted and sentenced to death. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/sfeature/sf_trial_1933b.html Picture: http://www.lessonpaths.com/learn/i/scottsboro-webquest/images-of-scottsboro-trialrelated-photos -
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Two Scottsboro Boys Tried Again
Despite the United States Supreme Court's intervention, Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris were tried once again for rape, a direct violation of the 5th amendment. The two boys were convicted and sentenced to death. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/sfeature/sf_trial_1933b.html -
Alabama Supreme Court Declares Convictions Were Correct
Unfortunately, it happened again. The Alabama Supreme Court supported the previous court case's conviction of Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris. This was extremely odd since the United States Supreme Court had already reversed the ruling of the Alabama Supreme Court before. http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/s/scott/browse.php Picture: http://texasclimatenews.org/wp/?attachment_id=5253 -
United States Supreme Court Intervenes
After two of the Scottsboro Boys were convicted once again, the United States Supreme Court announces that it will review the case yet again. This gave confirmation that the United States Government was against the decisions of Alabama, as this marks their second reviewing of the case. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/600/ Picture: http://archive.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/070930/scottsboro.shtml -
United States Supreme Court Reverses Convictions
These two United States Supreme Court cases were called Patterson v. Alabama and Norris v. Alabama. This case reversed two convictions and death sentences against Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris, who were tried for the second time for the same crime, which they did not commit. http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1899 Picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson_v._Alabama -
Five Scottsboro Boys Convicted
Haywood Patterson is convicted for the fourth time. Clarence Norris is sentenced to death, Ozzie Powell pleads guilty to assaulting a police officer and is sentenced to twenty years in prision. Andy Wright is convicted of rape and sentenced to 99 years in prision, and Charles Weem is sentenced to 75 years. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html Picutre: http://lasentinel.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2326:the-scottsboro-boys&catid=79&Itemid=1 -
United States Supreme Court Declines to Review Latest Convictions
The United States Supreme Court decides not to review the latest convictions of the five Scottsboro Boys. This essentially marks the last bit of hope for the boys, as the federal government has abandoned the case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_Boys#Final_decisions -
Scottsboro Boys in Jail
All of the Scottsboro Boys undergo a cycle of parole, leaving the state, getting arrested, being released, and dying. The last Scottsboro Boy, Clarenece Norris, dies on January 23, 1989 after being diagnosed with Alzheimers in 1980. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/peopleevents/p_norris.html Picture: http://www.africanafrican.com/negroartist/SCOTTSBORO%20BOYS1/ -
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Scottsboro Boys in Jail
All of the Scottsboro Boys undergo a cycle of parole, leaving the state, getting arrested, being released, and dying. The last Scottsboro Boy, Clarenece Norris, dies on January 23, 1989. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/peopleevents/p_norris.html -
Scottsboro Boys Officially Pardoned
80 years after nine false convictions, a vote took place, pardoning all nine of the boys. “The Scottsboro Boys have finally received justice,” Governor Robert J. Bentley said. While the entire case including the trials was horrible and a strong example of injustice, it today serves as a reminder of how much our country has grown over time. Picture and Information:
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Video On 2013 Pardoning of Scottsboro Boys
