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They ride the train
Nine black teenage boys are riding a train to Memphis to look for work. -
Fight breaks out
A white boy stepped on one of the hands of a black boy and the black boys fight the white boys and the black boys win the fight. -
The girls lie
Ruby Bates and Victoria Price were riding the train and since the fight broke out, word spread that there was a mob of 100 people were waiting for the boys and they didn't want to be seen riding the train so they said that the boys had raped them. -
Grand Jury says rape
The Grand Jury says that the nine Scottsboro Boys are guilty and they are convicted of rape. -
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Scottsboro Boys
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Gruesome execution
The Scottsboro boys hear about the execution of Willie Stokes, and many of the boys report having sleepless nights and nightmares. -
Ruby comes clean
Ruby Bates tells Earl Streetman that she denies being raped through a letter. -
Supreme Court
The Supreme Court says that they will take care of the trials and they will review them. -
Haywood is sentenced
Haywood Patterson is found guilty by the jury and is sentenced to death in the electric chair. -
New trial for Haywood
Judge Horton takes away Haywood Pattersons conviction and grants him a new trial. -
Death sentence
Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris are tried for rape in Judge William Callahan's court and they are convicted and sentenced to death. -
Bribe Victoria Price
Two laywers are charged with an attempt to bribe Victoria price to change her story. -
Scottsboro Defense Committee
The Scottsboro Defense Committee was formed to provide a united defense for the Scottsboro defendants. -
Ozzie gets shot
Ozzie Powell gets shot in the head by Sheriff Jay Sandlin and is rushed to the hospital immediately because he attacked Deputy Sheriff Edgar Blalock. -
Some were set free
Roy Wright, Eugene Williams, Olen Montgomery and Willie Roberson were all set free after all of there charges have been dropped and they were proven innocent -
No death sentence for Clarence
Clarence Norris' death sentence was reduced to just life in prison by Governer Graves -
Norris back in prison
Clarence Norris has to return back to prison. -
Haywood escapes
Haywood Patterson escapes from Kilby Prison but is later found by the FBI. -
Last one alive
Clarence Norris was the last of the Scottsboro boys to survive and he dies on Jan 23, 1989.