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The accusations begin
On this date, the nine Scottsborro boys,a few white men and two white prostitutes, Ruby Bates and Victoria Price were looking for a new life.. The white men had started a fight, and the black teenage boys won, throwing the white men off the train. Paint Rock, the town ahead, heard of the fight and had a posse waiting at the station. Afraid of being arrested, the two prostitutes framed the teens of rape.
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Nearly lynced
During this day, the mob had gotten very violent, and wanted to kill the Scottsborro boys for the crime they did not commit. This event would not occur today due to more racial justace,equality,and security footage; but there are still resentments and distrust between Americans and people of Middle Eastern descent.
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The fight for control of the case
During these months, the NAACP(National Association of Colored People) and the NLD( National Labor Defense) fight for control of the case in defense of the Scottsborro boys. The NAACP wins, only to drop out in the January of 1932. -
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The trials begin
This newspaper here tells about the verdict.During these two days, all of the nine Scottsborro boys are sentanced to death. The jury were all white men, and all but one of the jury members voted for thier deaths. -
Ruby Bates denies her testamony
Ruby Bates writes a letter to her boyfriend, Earl Streetman, denying being raped by the Scottsborro boys.
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Ruby Bates changes her mind
This date was when Ruby Bates started supporting the Scottsborro boys, the same teenagers she had convicted two years before. This act helped the Scottsborro boys, and was the first act of justice torwards the teenagers in this case.
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Judge Horton under pressure
Due to local tensions , Judge Horton postpones the trial date for almost all of the Scottsborro boys. Haywood Patterson was convicted and sentanced to death.
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Two lawyers are arrested for bribery
Here is where my information came from.Two laywers went to Victoria Price's house to bribe her into changing her testamony. She refuses, and they are arrested for thier attempt to changed her opinion. -
The convictions are overturned
The convictions are overturned for the Scottsboro boys due to the fact that the jury was all white men. This made it biased. Not everyone was biased, this is shown through this letter. This is an example of the support and justness that was felt later in the trial after the anger of the locals went away and the colored had more rights..
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Convictions happen to three of the Scottsborro boys
During this month, Clarence Norris is convicted of rape to death. Also, Andy Wright is convicted for nintey-nine years in prison for rape, and Charlie Weems is convicted for seventy-five years in prison for rape.
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Charges are dropped
Four of the Scottsboro boys had thier charges dropped. They are Roy Wright,Olen Montgomery,Eugene Williams.and Willie Robertson. Picture: Creative Commons
Source: Linder, Douglas O. "The Trials of The Scottsboro Boys." The Trials of The Scottsboro Boys. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY (UMKC) SCHOOL OF LAW, 1999. Web. 01 Oct. 2014. -
Judge Hordon denies all pardons
All applications for pardons for the Scottsborro boys are denied by Judge Hordan.
Source: Linder, Douglas O. "The Trials of The Scottsboro Boys." The Trials of The Scottsboro Boys. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY (UMKC) SCHOOL OF LAW, 1999. Web. 01 Oct. 2014. -
Victoria Price sues NBC for documentry on the case
Victoria Price, now Katherine Queen Victory Street, sues NBC for the video "Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys", claiming that it ruined her privacy and talking slander about her. NBC won, and she died in 1982 after marrying many times .
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The last Scottsboro boy dies
On this date, the last Scottsboro boy , Clarance Norris, dies at the age of seventy-six years. Sadly, the Scottsboro boys had not been paroled. The trial's verdicts were more rash in the beginning thani n the end of the case because ofthe rage, hatred, and the intolerance and distrust between the races.
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The Scottsboro Boys are pardoned
Gray, Clyde. "Alabama Officials Vote to Pardon Scottsboro Boys." YouTube. YouTube, 4 Apr. 2013. Web. 01 Oct. 2014.
This is the final event of the Scottsboro boys trial. After 80 years of imprisonment, the Scottsborro boys are free. This tragic case took this long because people are not willing to give up negitive emotions torwards other kinds of people; in this case it was between the white and the colored people.
