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On the Southern Railroad Freight Train, nine black youths were arrested for assault and accused of rape.They were taken to Scottsboro, Alabama.
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Victoria Price and Ruby Bates the ladies who were acsed riped
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A grand jury indicts all nine "Scottsboro Boys."
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all the young men where sentenced to death. atcept the case against Roy Wright. who left a hung jury when 11 jurors seek a death sentence like the other youg men and one vote for life imprisonment.
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The executions of the defendants are stayed pending appeal to the Alabama Supreme Court.
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: Patterson is found guilty and sentenced to 75 years in prison.
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: Prosecuting attorney Lieutenant Governor Thomas Knight meets Leibowitz in New York to negotiate a compromise.
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Thomas Knight dies.
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1938 Alabama Supreme Court affirms the sentences given Norris, Andy Wright and Weems.
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1944 January: Andy Wright and Clarence Norris are released on parole. Wright and Norris leave Alabama, in violation of their parole.
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almers persuades them to return to the Southbut both are returned to jail, Norris in October 1944, Wright in October 1946.
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Clarence Norris is paroled again
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Patterson escapes from prison.
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Patterson is arrested by the FBI in Detroit. Governor G. Mennen Williams refuses to sign the extradition papers to send him to Alabama
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: Andy Wright is paroled and finds a job in Albany, New York.
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June: Patterson is arrested by the FBI in Detroit; Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams refuses to sign the extradition papers to return him to Alabama. Alabama abandons attempts to return him to prison. Patterson is charged with murder after a fight in a restroom
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1951 Haywood is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 6 to 15 years in jail
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Haywood Patterson dies of cancer.
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1959 Roy Wright dies
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Clarence Norris is pardoned by Alabama Governor George Wallace.
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1977 Victoria Price files a lawsuit against NBC for defamation and invasion of privacy .
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Clarence Norris, the last meber of the Scottsboro Boys, dies
