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Where it all began
The train that all the boys were on stops in Scottsboro Alabama and all nine boys were accused of raping Ruby Bates and Victoria Price. -
Lynching
The Scottsboro boys were almost lynched by a mob that was stadning outside of the Scottsboro jail -
First Trial
The first trial begins for the nine boys, who have an awful lawyer that was scarped up by their families little money, and the verdict was guilty -
Rehearing
The U.S Supreme court says that they''ll review the Scottsboro cases -
New Lawyer
Samuel Leibowitz which is a really good lawyer, defends the Scottsboro boys. -
Haywood Spolight
Haywood Patterson's second trial begins in front of judge James Horton -
The almost ending of Haywood
Haywood Patterson is found guilty and sentenced to death in an electric chair -
Tension
Judge Horton is torn between doing the right thing or going along with the peer pressure so he decided to postone the trial for the others -
Protest
In Washington, thousands marched against the Alabama trials -
Fear?
Judge Horton decides forget about Haywood Patterson's convinction and he starts a new trial -
Another new judge?
The trial is taken away ffrom Judge Horton and given to Judge William Callahan -
Two wrongs don't make a right
Ozzie Powell is shot in the head by a sheriff named Jay Sandlin, because he was attacking another sheriff. -
Bribery
Two layers tried to bribe Victoria Price so she would change her testimony and they are both cahrged with bribery -
A new committee
A committee is organized and called the Scottsboro Defense Committee -
Declined
Patterson and Norris' convinctions are declind by the U.S Supreme court
