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Nine African American boys rode on a train headed to Memphis in search of jobs.
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Scottsboro boys are arrested on charges of assualt. Charges are added on all nine of the African American boys, after the accusations of Victoria Price and Ruby Bates.
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Grand Jury formally indicts the nine Scottsboro boys of Rape
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First trial begins in Scottsboro before Judge A. E. Hawkins
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The date of execution was set. After hearing gruesome reports about the last victim of execution the boys report having nightmares and sleepless nights.
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Eight of the Nine boys who were sentenced to death for alleged rape of two young white girls rioted in the Alabama Jail but quickly were shackled.
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The alleged victim, Ruby Bates denies she was raped.
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Haywood Patterson is found guilty by jury and is sentenced to death in electric chair.
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Scottsboro cases removed from Judge Horton's Jurisdiction and transferred to Judge William Callahan's court.
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Two lawyers are charged with attempted bribe to Victoria Price to change her testimony.
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The Scottsboro Defense Committee is formed and organized.
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Roy Wright, Euguene Williams, Olen Montgomery and Willie Roberson were released after all charges were dropped against them.
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Pardon Board declines pardon applications of Norris, Weems, and Roy Wright
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Patterson gets involved with a bathroom fight that results in a death. He is charged with Murder.
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Haywood Patterson is convicted for manslaughter and is sentenced 6-15 years of prison. He dies a year later due to cancer.
