Scottsboro Boys

Arrested for rape

Mar 25, 1931

citationthe charges that were against the boys was rape, and charges of assult

lynched by crowd

Mar 26, 1931

a crowd of over 100 people alomst lynched the boys

The trials

Apr 6, 1931

citationJudge A.E. Hawkins was the judge in the Scottsboro trial

NAACP

Jan 1, 1932

citationthe NAACP withdraws from the case

The letter

Jan 5, 1932

citationRuby Bates sent a letter to Earl Streetman saying she was never raped

Postpones trial

Apr 18, 1933

citationJudge Horton postpones a trial because of the high tensions

People protest

May 7, 1933

citationpeople around the country protest against the Alabama trials

Tried for rape

Nov 30, 1933

citationHaywood Patterson and Clarence Norris are convicted and tried for rape and sentenced to death

Committee is organized

Dec 15, 1935

citationthe Scottsboro Defense Committee is organized

Conviction of Haywood

Jun 14, 1937

citationthe conviction of Haywood Patterson is upheld by the Alabama Supreme Court

Charges are dropped

Jul 14, 1937

all charges are dropped on Roy Wright, Eugene Williams, Olen Montgomery and Willie Roberson and were released.

Supreme Court declines

Oct 26, 1937

citationThe U.S Supreme Court refuses to review the Norris and Patterson convictions

The death sentence

Jun 1, 1938

citationthe Alabama Supreme puts Norris and Patterson on the death sentence

Death sentence is reduced

Jul 5, 1938

citationthe death sentence is reduced against Norris and is reduced to life in prison

Pardoning

Apr 19, 2013

citationthe Governor of Alabama Robert Bentley signs a legislation offically pardoning and exonerating all nine Scottsboro Boys