The Scottsboro Boys

Nine boys are arrested

Mar 25, 1931

The boys are charged by a grand jury

Mar 30, 1931

Two boys are convicted and sentenced to death

Apr 6, 1931

Clarence Norris
Charlie Weems

Another boy is convicted and sentenced to death

Apr 7, 1931

Haywood Patterson

Five more boys are convicted and sentenced to death

Apr 8, 1931

Olen Montgomery
Ozie Powell
Willie Roberson
Eugene Williams
Andy Wright

Ruby Bates denies being raped in a letter

Jan 5, 1932

Samuel Leibowitz is asked to take the case

Jan 1, 1933

Ruby Bates appears as a witness denying any rape that was said to have taken place

Apr 6, 1933

Two police officers that allegedly bribed Victoria Price to change her testimony are arrested

Oct 1, 1934

They were never convicted.

Weems is released on parole

Nov 17, 1938

Norris and Wright are released on parole

Jan 1, 1944

Powell is released on parole

Jun 1, 1946

Patterson escapes from prison

Jul 1, 1948

Victoria Price files a lawsuit against NBC

Jul 12, 1977

Clarence Norris dies

Jan 23, 1989

He was the last of the Scottsboro boys

The last boy is sentecned to life imprisonment

Apr 9, 2014

Roy Wright