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The Scottsboro boys are accused of rape
After a fight between breaks out between a group of blacks and whites with two girl. After the whites loss the blacks kick them off the train. The whites tell the stationmaster that they were attacked and the two girl (Victoria Price and Ruby Bates) claim they were raped. The boys were then arrested. -
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The Scottsboro boys
Cite works: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
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Scottsboro boys almost murdered
The Scottsboro boys were almost murdered from a crowd of about 100 peope gathered around there jail. -
The Grand jury
The grand jury indicts scottsboro boys. -
The NAACP and ILD begin battles for custody
The NAACP and ILD begins to battle for the right to respresent the Scottboro boys. This also continues until decemeber. -
Trials Begin
The trials for the Scottsboro boys begins on April 6th, 1931 before Judge A. E. Hawkins. -
NAACP and ILD have fought since April
The NAACP and ILD continues to battle for the rights to represents the Scottsboro boys. -
NAACP gives up on boys
Now the NAACP withdrawns from the case and the boys are left in the mercy of the government. -
The Alabama supreme court
The alabama supreme court convicts seven of the boys by a vote of 6-1, but the conviction of Eugene Williams is reversed on the grounds that he was a juvenile under state law in 1931. -
U.S. supreme court
The U.S. supreme court annouces that it will review the Scottsboro boys cases. -
Supreme court reverses convinctions
The U.S. Supreme court reverses the convinctions of the Scottsboro boys in Powell vs. Alabama because failed to provide adequate assistance of counsel as required by the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. -
Haywood Patterson
Haywood Patterson was found guilty by jury and sentenced to death by eletric chair -
March on Washington
In one of many protests around the nation. Thousands of people march in Washington protesting the Alabama trials. -
Retrial declared
Haywood Patterson's conviction is set aside by Judge Horton and grants Patterson a new trial. -
The group of white men are released from prison
Toy wright, Eugene Williams, Olen Montgomery and Willie Roberson were released after all the charges were dropped against them. -
Governor Graves denies all pardon applications.
Governor Graves denies to pardon any of the scottsboro boys after the pardon interviews go horribly wrong. First, Haywood Patterson is searched and found carrying a knife giving authorities reason to believe the boys are a danger. Second, brain-damaged Ozie Powell refused to answer Graves questions, saying "I don't want to say nothing to you." Third, according to Graves' account, Clarence Norris threatened to kill Haywood Patterson, with whom he had been feuding bitterly, after his release
