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The Train
All nine of the Scottsboro boys are arrested on charges of assault, are also charged for rape by Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. The Scottsboro boys include Clarenece Norris, Charlie Weems, Haywood Patterson, Olen Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Willie Robertson, Eugene Williams, Andy Wright, and Roy Wright. Information:
http://www.scottsboromusicallondon.com/history/
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Conviction
Eight of the boys are all tried and convicted, and sentenced to death. Roy Wright's ends in a mistrial. Information:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
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Ruby Bates
Ruby Bates admits in a letter to Earl Streetman that she was not raped. The Letter:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/bates-streetman.html
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http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/SB_BBates.html -
Alabama Supreme Court
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. Information:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
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The US Supreme Court Decision
The Supreme Court, by a vote of 7-2 reverses the convictions of the boys in Powell vs. Alabama. Grounds for reversal are that Alabama failed to provide adequate assisstance of counsel as required by the due process clause of the 14th ammendment. http://www.scottsboromusicallondon.com/history/ -
The Scottsboro Boys Get a Lawyer
Samuel S. Leibowitz, a New York lawyer is retained by the ILD to defend the Scottsboro boys. Information:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
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http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm -
Patterson Found Guilty
Haywood Patteron is found guilty and sentenced to death by the electric chair. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
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http://tokillamockingbirdprojectpage.pbworks.com/w/page/22329428/Signs of the Times Civil Rights Collage -
Postponed
Judge Horton postpones the trials of the other boys due to dangerously high local tensions. Information:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/SB_BHort.html
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Conviction Aside
Judge Horton sets aside Haywood Patteron's conviction and grants a new trial. Information:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
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http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/SB_BHort.html -
Patterson and Norris
Haywood Patterson and Clarence Norris are both tried, and convicted of rape, and sentenced to death. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
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Overturned Again
The US Supreme Court overturned the convictions of Norris and Patterson because African Americans were excluded from sitting on juries in their trials. Information:
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Haywood Convicted Again
Haywood Patterson is convicted for a fourth time of rape, and sentenced to 75 years in prison. This was the first time a black man in Alabama that had been convicted of raping a white women was not sentenced to death. Information:
http://www.scottsboromusicallondon.com/history/
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The Other Boys
Clarence Norris is convicted of rape and sentenced to death. Andy Wright is convicted and sentenced to 99 years in prison. Charlie Weems is convicted and gets 75 years. Ozzie Powell pleads guilty from attacking a sheriff and gets 20 years.
Information:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
Image (Ozie Powell) :
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Released
Roy Wright, Eugene Wiliams, Olen Montgomery, and Willie Robertson are all released after the charges were dropped against them. They had all spent four years in prison. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
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Norris lives
Norris's death sentence is reduced to life in prison by Governer Graves. Information:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
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Haywood Patteron Dies
Haywood Patterson is involved in the death of another man in a barroom fight, and is convicted of mansaulter, and sentenced to 6-15 years. He dies of cancer less than a year later. Information:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_chron.html
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Clarence Norris Dies
Clarence Norris, the last of the Scottsboro boys, dies at age 76. Information:
http://www.scottsboromusicallondon.com/history/
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The Last of the Scottsboro Boys Pardoned
Alabama governer Robert Bentley signs legislation that offically pardons all nine of the Scottsboro boys. Article About the Signing:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/22/us/with-last-3-pardons-alabama-hopes-to-put-infamous-scottsboro-boys-case-to-rest.html?_r=0
Information:
http://www.scottsboromusicallondon.com/history/
Image:
http://www.scottsboromusicallondon.com/history/
