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the incident
9 black boy and 6 white boy have a fight on a train. when its all over two white girls walk off the train and say they have been raped. -
grand jury indict the scottboro boys
a grand jury decides that there ahould be a traial and indict the scottsboro boys. -
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all but Roy Wright are official convicted.
in only one and a half weeks after the supposed crime was comitted the scottboro boy with the exeption of one are found guilty and senteced to either death or life imprisonment -
statment retracted
6 Ruby bates (the younger one) retracts her statement saying that she was never raped as well as the doctor that examined her saying that there was no semen present from the claimed incident -
Judge Horton court and the trial is shown to be fair
through the scond round of appaels it is shown that not all judges are bias and judge horton is quite fair -
the cases are removed from Horton’s court and given to Judge Callaghan
after the prosocution request of mistrial -
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callaghan is bias
Callaghan is shown to be a completely biased judge and grossly neglects several of his parts of his oath and stone walls the defendant -
norris gets death
The third trial of Clarence Norris ends in a death sentence -
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rape charge dropped
July 12-16: The third trial of Clarence Norris ends in a death sentence. .
July 20-21: The trial of Andy Wright ends in conviction and a sentence of 99 years.
July 22-23: The trial of Charley Weems ends in conviction and a sentence of 75 years.
July 23-24: Ozie Powell pleads guilty to assaulting Blalock and is sentenced to 20 years. Rape charges are dropped.
July 24: Rape charges against the last four defendants, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Eugene Williams, and Roy Wright, are dropped. The -
Weems is released on parole.
the first of all the scottboro boy is found inocent and is released on parole -
Andy Wright and Clarence Norris are released on parole.
now two more of the boys are realesed on parole but both of them will return -
Ozie Powell is released on parole.
yet again it is shown that the sccottboro boys are innocent and ozie powell is realeased on parole -
Clarence Norris is paroled again.
Clarence Norris is paroled again after leaving alabama and being sent to prison again -
Haywood Patterson escapes from prison
after repeated atempts for a retrial denied and parole denied haywood patterson is all but forgoten -
last Scottsboro is pardoned by Governor George Wallace .
ironic because he was pardoned by the same govener that said
n the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. -
the last of the of the Scottsboro boys dies
clarence norris the final living scottboro boy dies at the age of 76.
