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The Trip
Seventeen year-old Ruby Bates and twenty-one year old Victoria Price from Huntesville, Alabama rode a freight train to Chattanooga, Tennessee to look for jobs in the mill industry.
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The Scottsboro Boys Trials
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Home Sweet Home
Dissapointed, by the fact that "no" work was available the girls hopped on a Southern Railroad train at around ten o'clock in the morning in hopes of returning home. While there, they met seven white boys in the boxcar they were riding in.
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Rape?
Furthermore, approximately tweleve negro boys climbed into the gondola with the girls and the boys which caused a brawl to break out between the boys. Due to this, Victoria and Ruby made a claim stating that nine of the negroes raped them.
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A Place to Stay?
Around nine o'clock the girls arrived in Chattenooga, Tennessee and stayed at a lady named Callie Brochie's house, which was supposedly a couple of blocks away from Market Street. A investigation took place and the house nor the neighborhood could be identified. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_HRrep.html
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Help! We are about to be lynched!
The nine boys were arrested by a posse of police officers who were gathered at Paint Rock waiting for the train to get there. Meanwhile, the boys were charged with rape and they nearly escaped from being lynched in front of about 100 people at the Scottsboro jail. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/ -
My Letter...
Ruby Bates denies that she was raped in a letter addressed to Earl Streetman. http://www.scottsboromusicallondon.com/history/ -
Powell vs. Alabama
In 1932, the Supreme Court ruled (7-2) that the convictions of the Scottsboro Boys must be reversed, but Alabama failed to obey the due process clause associated with the 14th Amendment. http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/287/45 -
Wait, More Trials?
The second trial had begun and Haywood Patterson was sentenced to the "electric chair" and was found guilty. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_HRrep.html -
Fight for Equal Rights!!!
On May 8th, 1933 a huge march took place in Washington, D.C to support equal rights for negroes. http://www.africanafrican.com/negroartist/SCOTTSBORO%20BOYS1/index2.html -
Victoria Price's Testimony
Two lawyers were were charged with bribing Victoria Price in order to change her testimony. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_HRrep.html -
Norris vs. State of Alabama
Clarence Norris was brought on trial for rape but, while at court he discovers that jury just so happend to be all white. Furthermore, the state of Alabama took on the case and determined that there would be no more exclusion of blacks from all white juries; this statement can be traced back to the 6th Amendment of the consituition. http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&docid=e4o1h_BNRJz73M&tbnid=HRGS9AwcXabfXM:&ved=0CAYQjB0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org -
Our Commitee...
The International Labor Defense along with the NAACP and other groups formed the Scottsboro Defense Commitee which was desgined to back up and denfend the Scottsboro Boys. The groups could support the decisons and select one member from their organization to represent them in the commitee. Furthermore, the leader of the commitee was supposed to be a man named Samuel Leibowitz. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/naacp/the-great-depression.html -
The Big Deal
Thomas Knight propoed a compromise which stated that the Patterson case wouldn't be appealed and that the three men would have to plead guilty and Powell would be tried for assault against a deputy. Finally, the compromise never came about and the boys were convicted of rape while the others were released. http://wantedalabamademocrats.blogspot.com/2013_06_01_archive.html -
We have the Scottsboro Boys with us!
Governor Bibb Graves interviews all nine of the Scottsboro Boys. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/SB_bGrav.html -
R.I.P Patterson
Haywood Patterson dies of cancer a couple of days after being charged with manslaughter. http://www.angelfire.com/scary/maneyes/pictures/index.album/harlem-crowd?i=10&s=1 -
Goodbye Norris!!
The last surviving Scottsboro Boy, Clarence Norris dies at age 76.
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The journey has ended
All nine of the Scottsboro Boys were cleared innocent.
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