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Nine negro teenagers on their way to Memphis Tennessee by train got into a fight with white men. After the fight two women by the names of Victoria Price and Ruby Bates claimed to have been raped by the teenagers during the fight.
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The nine negros were almost lynched (killed) by a crowd of 100 people that had gathred out side the scottsboro jail where they were being held.
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at 8:30 a.m the frist trial of the scottsboro boys incident was held in Scottsboro, Alabama. A crowd of thousands gathred outsde and arount the courthouse they chreered as they learned what the verdict was, The Death Penalty.
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Two trials were help this day one for 18 year old Haywood Patterson, Olin Montgomery, Andy Wright, Eugene Williams, Willie Robeson and, Ozie Powell were all given the death penalty
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14 year old Roy Wright was caught in a mistrial at his trial becuase one of the jury members wanted life imprisonment instead of deciding to sentence him to death.
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the National association for the advancement of colored people and the international labor defence fought to represent and help then in court.
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Ruby Bates, one of the women that claimed to have been raped on the train with Victoria Price denide that she was raped in a letter.
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The Suprime cour f the United States takes hold of the scottsboro case
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The suprime cout rules that the scotts boro boys were restriced to council that violated their 14th amendment rights. the cases were given to the lower courts.
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Thye Trails of the Scottsboro boys is postponed by judge Horton becuase of high tention in the public.
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Lawyers from the International Labor Defence attempted to bribe Victoria Price to chage her accounts on the alleged rape.
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Ozzie Powell, one of the scottsboro boys is shot in the head after he attacked deputy Sheriff Edgar Blalock and is rushed to the hospital.
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Eugene Williams, Olen Montgomery,Willie Roberson, and Roy Wright have their cases all dropped against them.
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the last living Scottsboro boy, Clarence Norris dies
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The govenor of Alabama, Robert Bentley signs legislative that pardons all of the scotts boro boys after all of them have passed away many years before
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http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/peopleevents/p_powell.html http://jackiewhiting.net/Collab/CivRts/ScottsBoys.htm http://live.drjays.com/index.php/2013/11/22/alabama-
posthumously-pardons-last-of-the-scottsboro-boys/ http://photos.al.com/huntsville-times/2013/04/scottsboro_boys_legislation_1.html
