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Traveling on a freight
Nine black teenagers ages 13 to 19 were traveling on a freight train, when a fight broke out and the boys beat up a white guy , then got accused of rapibng to white women. -
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Scottsboro Trial
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http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
The scottsboro boys are taken to jail and are approached by a crowd of at least 100 people. -
INDICTMENT
Scottsboro boys are indicted for rape. -
Executions
Excutions are pending for the scottsboro boys at this point. -
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
The day set for scottsboros execution, there listening in on the executrions of Willie Stocks. -
Ruby Bates
Ruby bates denies that she was raped. -
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
The 14th amendment says that if you cant afford an attorney one will be provided for you, in this case grounds were reversed because alabma failed to give the scottsboro boys the right attorney they needed. -
Haywood Patterson
Haywood Patterson's second trial begins. -
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris are tried for rape, convicted and sentenced to death. -
Release
Roy Wright, Eugene Williams, Olen Montgomery, and Willie Robinson got all charges dropped and got released. -
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
The boys get interviewed by Governor Graves, who eventually denies all pardon applications. -
Escape
Haywood patterson escapes from prison and Fbi arrest him two years later. -
Patterson
Patterson is involved in a barroom fight that kills another man and on this day he gets sentenced 6 to 15 years for the fight, He dies from cancer a year after this. -
Victoria Price
Victoria sues NBC for the movie that the made involving the life and trial of the scottsboro boys and Judge Horton, she claims that it invaded her privacy. -
Death
The last scotsboro boy, Clarence Norris dies at age 76.
