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The train ride where it all began.
Deep into the depression of the south, a fight broke loose on a trian ride in Alabama. The fight happened between whites and blacks. A white boy stepped on one the young black boys hand, Hayward Patterson, eighteen. Once everyone got off the train two young ladies reported that nine colored men raped them. The nine boys were arresested.
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First two boys guilty.
Clarence Norris and Charlie Weems are pronounce guilty. The two boys were sentenced to death.
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Hayward Patterson
Hayward Patterson is tried and pronounced guilty. He is sentenced to death. The other boys are soon after sentenced to death.
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Defendents pending
The defendents are pending from execution to the Alabama Supreme Court
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Ruby Bates not found creditable
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Supreme court voting
Alabama’s Supreme Court placed a vote and the conclusion was 6-1 on upholding the conviction of seven of the defendants. Eugene Williams was granted another trial being a juvenile at the time of his conviction. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/index.html -
Powell vs. Alabama
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Case is given away
I.L.D asked Samuel Leibowitz to take the case over, he agreed. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/index.html -
Hayward Patterson
Hayward Patterson's trial begins
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Ruby Bates apperance
Ruby Bates makes a special appearances for the defence. Denying that any rape occured.
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Found guilty
Hayward Patterson is found guilty and sentenced to death. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/index.html -
Judge Horton changes trials
Judge Horton appoints the death sentence for Patterson and suspends it on a motion for another trial. After reappointing another trial, the judge postpones the rest of the trials because of the uproar in the town knowing that the verdict would not be just and impartial. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/index.html -
Verdit of Petterson and Norris
Between the months of October and November, Patterson and Norris’s trials both end in death sentences. During the trials Judge Callahan fails to explain to Patterson’s jury how to render a not guilty verdict and does not ask the mercy of God on Norris’s soul. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/index.html -
Cases moved
The Scottsboro cases were removed from Judge Horton's court and moved into into Judge William Callahan's court. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/index.html -
Reappearing
Seven of the nine boys appear in Judge Callahan's court while the youngest two appear in juvenille court.
This case took so long due to all the protesting and Ruby Bates's confession.
The tolarance of African Americans has changed in terms of the law looking at humans as people not colors. It has not changed on the terms of white people still having racism
torwards African Americans.
We can change intolorance by treating people equally in every circumstance.
