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Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Haywood Patterson, Olen Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Willie Roberson, Eugene Williams, Andy Wright, and Roy Wright.
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The Scottsboro Boys were arrested and accused of rape and sexual assault!
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The girls who accused the Scottsboro Boys of raping them were Victoria Price and Ruby Bates.
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By this date, all the Scottsboro Boys had been tried and convicted to death. Except for Roy Wright, he received life imprisonment.
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A letter from Ruby Bates to her boyfriend surfaces: in it, she denieds having been raped!
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The Alabama Supreme Court, voting 6-1, upholds the convictions of seven of the defendants!
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In Powell v. Alabama, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the defendants were denied the right to counsel, which violated their right due to process under the Fourteenth Amendment!
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In Norris v. Alabama, the United States Supreme Court finds the exclusion of blacks on jury rolls deprived black defendants of their rights to equal protection under the law as guaranteed in the Fourteenth Amendment1
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Ends in a conviction and a sentence of 99 years!
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Ends in a conviction and a sentence of 75 years!
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Powell is sentenced to 20 years in prison and the rape charges are dropped!
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Rape charges against the Scottsboro Boys are dropped!
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Clarence Norris is pardoned by Alabama Governor: George Wallace!
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Clarence Norris, the last of the Scottsboro Boys, dies.
