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The Scottsboro Boys are arrested for assaultand later rape.
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The Scottsboro Boys
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The Scottsboro Boys are almost lynched by a crowd gathered at Scottboro's jail
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NAACP and ILD battle for the right to represent the Scottsboro Boys
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The Scottsboro Boys are tried, convicted, and most are sentenced to death
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The Scottsboro Boys are forced to listen to Wille Stokes' excecution
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The Supreme Court announces that they will review the Scottsboro case
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Some of the Scottsboro Boys' trials are postponed due to high local tensions
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Two laywers are charged with attempting to bribe Victoria Price into changing her testimony
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The Scottsboro Defense Commitee is organized
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Wright, Williams, Montgomery, and Roberson are released after all charges are dropped against them.
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Alabama Pardon Board declines to pardon Patterson and Powell
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Pardon Board Denies the applications of Norris, Weems, and Roy Wright
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Govener of Alabama denies all pardon applications
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The last surviving Scottsboro Boy, Clarence Norris dies at age 76
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The govener of Alabama officially pardons and extonerates all nine Scottsoro Boys