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The Train
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
The 9 Scottsboro boys were accused of raping 2 white wemon. http://challengercn.com/the-scottsboro-boys/ -
The Death Sentence
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The supreme court unanimously denied the request for new trials of the Scottsboro boys. -
Patterson in prision
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
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
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
