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The nine boys are on the freight train headed to Memphis.
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The nine boys were accused of raping two white girls.
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They get arrested when the girls; Ruby Bates and Victoria Price accused them of raping the two young girls. They said all nine boys ripped their clothes off.
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The boys are almost killed by a mobof 100 people.
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The jury indicts that the nine boys are guilty for rape.
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The trial begins in Scottsboro.
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Out of nine boys, eight of them are sentenced to death by electrocution. The youngest, Roy Wright had the choice to be sentenced to death or to be imprisoned for the rest of his life.
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Ruby Bates claims she was not raped and was forced to say she was by her friend Victoria Price.
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The U. S. Supreme Court announces that it will review the Scottsboro cases.
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Samuel Leibowitz, a New York lawyer, is retained by the ILD to defend the Scottsboro boys.
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Haywood Patterson's second trial begins in Decatur.
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Haywood Patterson found guilty by jury and sentenced to death in the electric chair.
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Thousands march in Washington protesting the Alabama trials.
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Judge Horton grants another trial, forgetting about Haywood Patterson's conviction.
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The Scottsboro cases are removed from Judge Horton's jurisdiction and transferred to Judge William Callahan's court.
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The Scottsboro Defense Committee is organized.
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The Scottsboro trials end.
