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First Event
nine black teenagers were on a train heading to Memphis. Two of the boys were thirteen. The others ranged from seventeen years to nineteen years old. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/29/arts/scottsboro-70-years-later-still-notorious-still-painful.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm -
Second Event
There were two white women as well as seven white boys on the same train as the Scottsboro Boys. Their names were Ruby Bates who was twenty-three years old and Victoria Price who was eighteen years old. The names of the white boys were not mentioned.
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Third Event
The Scottsboro Boys were accused of raping the two women on the train with them. They were accused of throwing six of the white men out of the train and the other one was knocked unconious. The women said that they fought and fought. The six white men who were thrown out of the train called the police and when the train arrived at its stop there were police there and took the Scottsboro boys with them to Scottsboro for trial. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1126 -
Fourth Event
The Scottsboro Boys were taken to jail in Alabama. Eight were to die for the rapism on white women. The ninth boy could not have possibly raped a white woman. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1126 -
Fifth Event
The Scottsboro boys were sentenced for death for attack on white women. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1126 -
Sixth Event
The Scottsboro boys (eight of them) were in jail and were soon to be sentenced to death but while they were in jail they didn't get food or water and they were frustrated and very furious with the gaurds and keepers og the jail. They banged and smashed their hands up against the brick walls. They wanted to get out of the jail. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1126 -
Seventh Event
Eight black teenager boys from Tennessee were then sentnced to die in electric chairs for attack on white women. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1126 -
Eighth Event
There were mobs of people that didn't like the fact that there were negroes locked in jail with no food, and they were tried with something that didn't even do. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1126 -
Tenth Event
The lawyers were all white because there was shortage of jobs and black people weren't allowed to do much of anything that the whites were allowed to do. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/verdict-is-announced-in-scottsboro-case -
Ninth Event
There were some black guys that had fired gun shots at police men. One was killed, three were wounded, and seventeen arrested. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=1126 -
Eleventh Event
The court gets a letter from Ruby Bates boyfriend stating that she denies being raped by the Scottsboro Boys. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/index.html -
Thirteenth Event
When they were in prison, they learned to read and write. They said that prison was so terrible that they would have rather had the electric chair instead. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/29/arts/scottsboro-70-years-later-still-notorious-still-painful.html?pagewanted=all&src=p -
Event Twelve
Haywood Patterson is guilty and sentenced to death. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/index.html -
Fourteenth Event
Ruby Bates was a witness in the trial and she said that her and Price were with their boyfriends the night before. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/index.html -
Fifthteenth Event
Patterson and Noriss's trials ended and they were sent to death. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/timeline/index.html
