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Ruby Bates, and Victoria Price: The two women that accused the Scottsboro boys of rape. (credit to:http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_VP&RB.jpg for image)
http://www1.assumption.edu/users/McClymer/his261/ScottsboroNotes.html(Miss Hollace Ransdall, 1931)
Victoria Price and Ruby Bates May have seemed innocent, but they were actually in alot of trouble. Victoria, and Ruby were involved in prostitution. And Ruby being a minor, made it more illegal. They said they went and stayed at the house of a woman called Mrs. Callie Brochie. The next day they got onto the life changing train. -
Chaos on the train
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/29/arts/scottsboro-70-years-later-still-notorious-still-painful.html?pagewanted=all&src=pmAs the girls got on the train, the 12 black boys did too not too long after. According to Victoria Price, a fight between the scottsboro boys, and white men already on the train broke out. Resulting in all but one white man being thrown off the train and the others getting the police. When the train did stop the police arrived and the scotts were acussed of rape by the both Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, and soon after getting arrested. -
Crowd gathers outside of court
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_BoysThe Scottsboro boys were all close to being lynched by the crowd in the picture. And notice, this was the NEXT DAY after the incident on the train occured. This shows how fast news about the 9 black boys traveled. -
Letter from Ruby Bates to her boyfriend
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/bates-streetman.htmli
Dearest Earl I want to make a statment too you Mary Sanders is a goddam lie about those negroes jassing me those policement made me tell a lie that is my statement because I want too clear myself that is all too if you want to believe, ok. If not that is ok....(Rest in link provided) -
Change of story
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/index.htmlhttp://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_BATES.jpg' A year after the serious train fight, Ruby wasn't very cooperative. Ben Giles was keeping an eye on her to make sure she didn't go anywhere(Her dissapearing could mess up prosecution,) and according to Giles, she offered a large amount of money if she could disappear before the second trial. Not long after they found a letter from Ruby to her boyfriend. -
The people come marching.
http://washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/scottsboro-boys-a-new-type-of-march-on-washington-1933/Many people march in the rain in Washington protesting about the Alabama trials, demanding the Scottsboro boys have freedom. -
How ironic...
http://bayfairandpapamoavets.co.nz/information/rabbit-poison/http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/boyle/chronology.htmDefense witness for the Scottsboro boys, dies of poisoning in Chattanooga. -
The tale of 2 lawyers, a girl and some money.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_chron.html
2 lawyers are charged with attempting to bribe Victoria Price so that she can change her testimony. -
A little hope
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/timeline2.htmlSamuel Leibowitz brings up the lack of blacks in the juries, and shows the justices the jury rolls with forged names. -
No blacks, No convictions.
http://makamopanaka.com/page/3/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/timeline2.htmlThe US supreme court abolish the convictions of Norris and Patterson because of the fact that no black people are in the jury. -
Ozzie gone wild. (credit to for picture)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/timeline2.htmlAfter being trialed and convicted again, Ozzie Powell was being deported to Birmingham Jail. As he was being taken back, he pulled out a knife and slit Deputy Edgar Blalock's throat. seeing that this happened, Sheriff J. Street Sandlin stopped the car and shot Ozzie in the head. Both Edgar, and Ozzie were ok. (credit to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/peopleevents/p_powell.html) -
Great escape
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/timeline2.htmlPatterson made an escape from jail and went on his way to Detroit, but he was eventually caught, but the governor of Michigan didn't allow him to be sent to Alabama. -
More trouble for Patterson
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_chron.htmlPatterson was arrested after a fight in a bar resulted in a stabbing death and is charged with murder. His first trial ended in a hung jury; the second was a mistrial. After his third trial, he was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to six to fifteen years. -
Victoria price v NBC
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/peopleevents/p_price.html
Victoria Price sued NBC about the movie they aired named: "Judge Horton and the Scottboro Boys". She said that it was invading her privacy and was slander. Her argument was later dismissed. -
Last man down
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/timeline2.htmlClarence Norris, the last of the legendary Scottsboro Boys, dies at the age of 76.
