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PictureThe Fight Begins The fight begins on a train between the 9 scottsboro boys and the white people on the train, because a white man steps on Haywood Pattersons hand. They are accused and taken to jail.
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A Jury indicts all nine of the scottsboro boys.
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Trial: all nine of the scottsboro boys are tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.
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executions:The executions of the defendants are pushed back until the Alabama court allows it.
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courtThe United States Supreme court agrees to ear the case.
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witnessRubty Bates appears in court and confesses that they were not raped.
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Patterson was convicted guilty and sententenced to 75 years in prison.
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Thomas Knight dies.
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Andy Wright was convicted to 99 years in prison.
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The trial of Charley Weems ends in conviction and a sentence of 75 years.
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Ozie Powell pleads guilty to assaulting Blalock and is sentenced to 20 years and the rape charges are dropped.
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Rape charges against Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Eugene Williams, and Roy Wright, are dropped.
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Charlie Weems is released on parole.
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Ozie Powell is released on parole.
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Andy Wright is parolled.
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Patterson dies of cancer.
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Roy Wright dies
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Clarence Norris the last Scottsboro Boy died.
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