Scottsboro Boys Timeline

Arrests

Mar 25, 1931

The nine boys are arrested for assualt http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

Begining-End Trial

Period: Mar 25, 1931 to Jan 23, 1989

The Scottsboro Boys have gone through a tough time. Some of them were sent to jail, while others got their charges dropped. This was a long process and the men finally got the justice they deserved.

Lynching

Mar 26, 1931

Boys are in front over 100 and are almost lynched. The white people do not think what the boys did were right so they dont deserve to be here. http://abhmuseum.org/2013/02/exonerating-the-scottsboro-nine/

Accusation of rape

Mar 30, 1931

Grand jury accuses the boys of rape

NAACP and ILP

Period: Apr 1, 1931 to Jan 1, 1932

NAACP and ILP want to represent the Scottsboro boys

Trial

Apr 6, 1931

1st trial begins http://www.southernspaces.org/2011/rights-still-being-righted-scottsboro-eighty-years-later

Death Sentence

Apr 6, 1931

The boys are sentenced to death except for the youngest one, Roy Wright The Case of the Scottsboro Boys. Digital image. The Case of the Scottsboro Boys. Interactive One, 2014. Web. 1 Oct. 2014. http://tokillamockingbirdisasin.weebly.com/scottsboro-boys.html

Execution

Jul 10, 1931

The boys are supposed to die on this death based on their death sentence http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1126 http://history.ua.edu/scottsboro-boys-remembered/

Conviction

Mar 1, 1932

Eight boys are convicted because of the all white jury

Charges are dropped

Jul 24, 1937

Roy Wright, Eugene Williams, Olen Montgomery and Willie Roberson were released because their charges were dropped http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/boyle/protestexhibit.htm
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/scottsboro-boys-trial-and-defense-campaign-1931-1937

Bathroom Fights

Dec 1, 1950

Patterson is involved in a bathroom fight and kills the man. He gets charged with murder and manslaughter. http://www.homedit.com/18th-century-bathroom-transformed-into-a-beautiful-private-home/ http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

Death

Jan 1, 1952

Patterson dies http://insurgentnotes.com/2014/03/searching-for-the-ghost-of-big-jim-folsom-alabama-notes/ http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html

Segregation Canpaign

Jan 1, 1960

African Americans used tactics to show they were not giving up http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/timelines/a/Timeline-Of-Scottsboro-Boys.htm

George Wallace

Jan 1, 1976

Gov. George Wallace pardoned Norris http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7624706/George-Wallace.html

Last Scottsboro boy dies

Jan 23, 1989

Clarence Norris dies at age 76 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_Boys http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/26/obituaries/clarence-norris-the-last-survivor-of-scottsboro-boys-dies-at-76.html