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Accused
A fight breaks out between white and black young men who are on a train as homlessmen. The fight was broken up by a angry posse and the police in a city named Paint Rock.The 9 black young men were arrested for assualt includeing rape of two young white women Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. -
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The Scottsbror Boys
The beggining to the end of the scottsboro boys. -
Death sentences
Clarence Norris and Charlie Weems are sentenced to death. -
Death sentences
Haywood Patterson is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. -
Death sentences
Olen Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Willie Roberson, Eugene Williams, and Andy Wright are tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. Roy Wright a 13 year old boy is also convicted to either inprisonment for life or death. -
Withdraw
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People withdraw from the case -
Help
The scottsboror boys ask Samuel Leibowitz to help them on the case, even though he knows the inability to pay him he accepts. -
Surprise
Ruby Bates testifyes that no rape has occured, Victoria and Ruby both admited there were no rape to occure on the train. -
Blackmail
Nashville police arrested two lawyers that tried to bribe Victoria Price with 1,500$ . The lawyers where never trialed. -
Escape artist
While being transported back to Birmingham Jail, Ozie Powell pulls a knife and slashes Deputy Edgar Blalock's throat. Sheriff Jay Sandlin stops the car and shoots Powell in the head. Both Blalock and Powell survive. -
The first of the boys
Thomas Knight dies. -
Death
The trial of Andy Wright ends in conviction and a sentence of 99 years. -
Releace
Andy Wright and Clarence Norris are released on parole. -
Not that innocent
Patterson is charged with murder after a barroom brawl. -
Absense
Victoria Price files a lawsuit against NBC for defamation and invasion of privacy after the broadcast of Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys; her claim is dismissed. -
The End
Clarence Norris, the last of the Scottsboro Boys, dies.
