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A fight breaks out on a train between a group of black boys and white boys, along with two white girls. After the black boys force the whites off the train the white boys tell the stationmaster they were attacked and the two white girls(Victoria Price and Ruby Bates) claim that they were raped. The boys are arrested and taking in to custody
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Cite works:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
http://scottsboroboysandintolerance.weebly.com/process.html
https://www.google.com/search?q=scottsboro boys trial&bav=on.2,or.&bvm=bv.52434380,d.dmg,pv.xjs.s.en_US.RJfod4swqLE.O&biw=1440&bih=719&dpr=1&wrapid=tlif137967889187211&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=qzo8UtLIN_Wn4AO3t4CABA -
Scottsboro boys are nearly lynched by crowd of over 100 gathered around Scottsboro's jail.
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Grand jury indicts the nine Scottsboro boys for rape.
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NAACP and International Labor Defense (ILD) battle for the right to represent the Scottsboro boys.
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Trials begin in Scottboro before Judge A. E. Hawkins.
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NAACP and International Labor Defense (ILD) battle for the right to represent the Scottsboro boys.
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NAACP withdraws from case, leaving the boys at the mercy of the government.
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Alabama Supreme Court, by a vote of 6-1, affirms the convictions of seven of the boys. The conviction of Eugene Williams is reversed on the grounds that he was a juvenile under state law in 1931.
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The U. S. Supreme Court announces that it will review the Scottsboro cases.
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The Supreme Court, by a vote of 7-2, reverses the convictions of the Scottsboro boys in Powell vs. Alabama. Grounds for reversal are that Alabama failed to provide adequate assistance of counsel as required by the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
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Haywood Patterson was found guilty by jury and sentenced to death by eletric chair
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In one of many protests around the nation, thousands march in Washington protesting the Alabama trials.
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Judge Horton sets aside Haywood Patterson's conviction and grants a new trial.
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Toy wright, Eugene Williams, Olen Montgomery and Willie Roberson were released after all the charges were dropped against them.
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Governor Graves denies to pardon any of the scottsboro boys after the pardon interviews go horribly wrong. First, Hayword Patterson is searched and found carrying a knife giving authorities reason to beleive 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
