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In the middle of the great depression, a fight broke out on a train in Alabama when a black male stepped on the hand of a white man. Two women emerged from the train and claimed that 9 black men raped them.
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NAACP and ILD battled to defend the boys until December , and the NAACP later withdrawls
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The grand jury indicts all 9 Scottsboro boys.
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the NAACP withdrawls from the case.
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The Alabama supreme court voted 6/1 and 7 of the 9 boys were convicted, and the other two were sent to a juvenille court.
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Ruby Bates appeared as a witness for the case, one of the women that accused them as rape, and denied the situtation and said she did not get raped.
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Patterson, one of the oldest of the nine was found guilty and sentenced to death by the electric chair.
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Seven of the 9 boys appeared in Callahans court. The two youngest boys appeared in the Juenville court once again.
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Patterson and Norris,two of the blacks, were sentenced to death, but were later withdrawled.
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The Alabama supreme court affirmed the convictions of Haywood and Norris.
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Roy Wright, Eugene Williams , Olen Montgomery, and Willie Roberson were released and all charges were dropped.
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Two lawyers were charged with trying to pay Ruby Bates to change her opinion.
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Patterson was convicted for 75 years, but died of cancer during this time.
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On this day, Governor Graves denies the pardon of 5 of the Scottsboro boys
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The last of the nine was released from prison
