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Scottsboro boys are arrested on charges of assault on Southern Railroad train in Paint Rock, Alabama. Rape charges are added against all nine boys after accusations are made by Victoria Price and Ruby Bates
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Grand jury indicts the nine Scottsboro boys for rape.
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Trials begin in Scottboro before Judge A. E. Hawkins
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Ruby Bates, in a letter to a Earl Streetman, denies that she was raped
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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
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The U. S. Supreme Court announces that it will review the Scottsboro cases.
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NAACP and International Labor Defense (ILD) battle for the right to represent the Scottsboro boys
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Judge Horton postpones the trials of the other Scottsboro boys because of dangerously high local tensions.
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In one of many protests around the nation, thousands march in Washington protesting the Alabama trials.
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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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Charlie Weems is paroled. January, 1944. Norris and Andy Wright are paroled.
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