Scottsboro Boy

The Train

Mar 25, 1931

2 white wemon by the names of Ruby Bates and Victoria Price we also on the train when the scottsboro boys we on. The Scottsboro boys got into a fight with the whites men and they Scottsboro boys tghrew the whites off the train. The 2 white wemon accused the Scottsboro boys if raping them. http://scottsboroboystrial.blogspot.com/2010/05/ruby-bates-and-victoria-price.html

Falsly accused of crime

Mar 30, 1931

The 9 Scottsboro boys were accused of raping 2 white wemon. http://challengercn.com/the-scottsboro-boys/

The Death Sentence

Apr 10, 1931

Because of what the white wemon accused them of the raping so the were sentenced to the death penalty but it wasnt going to effect until theitr first trial on December 27. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

riots breakout

Apr 11, 1931

African americans were mad about 8 of the 9 getting sentenced to death. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/alabama-pardons-scottsboro-boys-after-82-years-f2D11634806

mayor threatened

Jul 17, 1931

Negro radicals had a meeting near Camp Hill threatened the mayor with if they didnt take the death sentence off of the 8 Scottsboro boys. http://socialistworker.org/2012/04/19/reds-in-a-red-state

their first trial

Dec 27, 1931

this was the day the 8 Scottsboro boys that were convicted to the death sentence got their first trial. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_acct.html

Ruby Bates

Jan 5, 1932

Ruby Bates in a letter to one of the jurries, she said that she denied being raped. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/SB_BBates.html

conviction

Mar 16, 1932

7 of the Scottsboro boys were convincted by a vote of 6-1. Eugene Williams was underage so he couldent be convicted. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_chron.html

Reversed conviction

Nov 27, 1932

By a vote to 7-2 the conviction of the death sentence was reversed. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_chron.html

Patterson to death

Apr 9, 1933

Patterson was sentenced to the electric chair during 1 trial. This death sentence was later postponed. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/

Roy and Eugene

Nov 20, 1933

The 2 youngest boys Eugene Williams and Roy Wright were not sentenced to death buy instead they were sent to juniville prision. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/

Supreme court

Jun 28, 1934

The supreme court unanimously denied the request for new trials of the Scottsboro boys.

Patterson in prision

Jan 23, 1936

Patterson's death sentence was reversed but the consequenses were still 75 years in prision. The jury all voted him quilty because he was black. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/timeline2.html

4 cases dropped

Oct 1, 1937

Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Eugene Williams, and Roy Wright. Their cases were dropped of the rape charge and got away free. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/timeline2.html

Graves's interview

Oct 1, 1938

Governer Graves interviewed all of the 9 boys. Just a few mounths later in November he denied all of their pardons. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_chron.html