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The beginning
In the middle of the great depression, a fight broke out on a train in Alabama when a black male stepped on the hand of a white man. Two women emerged from the train and claimed that 9 black men raped them. -
NAACP
NAACP and ILD battled to defend the boys until December , and the NAACP later withdrawls -
Jury
The grand jury indicts all 9 Scottsboro boys. -
NAACP
the NAACP withdrawls from the case. -
Vote
The Alabama supreme court voted 6/1 and 7 of the 9 boys were convicted, and the other two were sent to a juvenille court. -
Ruby Bates Appears
Ruby Bates appeared as a witness for the case, one of the women that accused them as rape, and denied the situtation and said she did not get raped. -
Patterson
Patterson, one of the oldest of the nine was found guilty and sentenced to death by the electric chair. -
Callahans court
Seven of the 9 boys appeared in Callahans court. The two youngest boys appeared in the Juenville court once again. -
Death Sentence
Patterson and Norris,two of the blacks, were sentenced to death, but were later withdrawled. -
Alabama
The Alabama supreme court affirmed the convictions of Haywood and Norris. -
The few released
Roy Wright, Eugene Williams , Olen Montgomery, and Willie Roberson were released and all charges were dropped. -
Lawyers
Two lawyers were charged with trying to pay Ruby Bates to change her opinion. -
Conviction
Patterson was convicted for 75 years, but died of cancer during this time. -
refusal
On this day, Governor Graves denies the pardon of 5 of the Scottsboro boys -
Release
The last of the nine was released from prison
