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Posse stops Southern Railroad train in Paint Rock, Alabama. Scottsboro boys are arrested on charges of assault. Rape charges are added aginst all nine boys after accusations are made by Victoria Price and Ruby Bates.
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Scottcboro boys are almost lynched by a crowd of over 100 people gathered around Scottsboro's jail.
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Grand jury indicts the nine Scottsboro boys for rape.
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Trials begin in Scottcboro before Judge A. E. Hawkins.
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Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Haywood Patterson, Olen Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Willie Roberson, Eugene Williams, and Andy Wright are sentenced to death, while Roy Wright is either going to be sentenced to death or imprisoned for life.
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On the first date set for their executions, the Scottsboro boys listen to the execution of Willie Stokes, the first of ten blacks to be executed at the prison over the next ten years.
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NAACP withdraws from the Scottsboro boys case
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Ruby Bates wrote a letter to Earl Streetman that denies that she was raped by the Scottsboro boys.
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The United States Supreme Court announces that it will review the Scottsboro cases.
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Samuel S. Leibowitz, a New York lawyer, is retained by the ILD to defend the Scottsboro boys.
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Haywood Patterson is found guilty by jury and sentenced to death in electric chair.
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In one of many protests around the nation, thousands march in Washington protesting the Alabama trials.
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Two lawyers are charged with attempting to bribe Victoria Price in order to change her testimony.
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The U. S. Supreme Court overturns the convictions of Norris and Patterson because African Americans were excluded from sitting on the juries in their trials.
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The Scottsboro Defense Committee is organized.
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Ozzie Powell is shot in the head by Sheriff Jay Sandlin while attacking Deputy Sheriff Edgar Blalock.
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Clarence Norris is convicted and sentenced to death. Andy Wright is convicted and sentenced to 99 years for rape. Charlie Weems is convicted and sentenced to 75 years. Ozzie Powell pleads guilty to assaulting the sheriff and is sentenced to 20 years.
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Roy Wright , Eugene Williams, Olen Montgomery, and Willie Roberson were released after all charges were dropped against them.
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Patterson is involved in a barroom fight, resulting in the death of another man. Haywood is charged with murder.
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Patterson is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 6 to 15 years. He dies of cancer a year later.
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Clarence Norris, the last surviving Scottsboro boy, dies at 76.
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Alabama Governor Robert Bentley signs legislation officially pardoning and exonerating all nine Scottsboro boys.
