"All NEGROES POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED BY GIRLS AND ONE WHITE BOY WHO WAS HELD PRISONER WITH PISTOL AND KNIVES WHILE NINE BLACK FIENDS COMMITTED REVOLTING CRIME."
March 25, 1931
- Alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers on the Southern Railroad freight run from Chattanooga to Memphis.
- At trial 8 of the 9 boys are tried, convicted and sentenced to death
- The youngest Roy Wright age 13, comes at a stall between life imprisonment or the death sentence.
- NAACP supports defendants but soon backs out from case
- Ruby Bates(women of the women claimed to be raped) denying the rape all together and testifies in court.
- Defendants convictions are held and new trials begin
- All white jury every time because blacks were excluded from that power.
- Alabama Supreme Court as well as US supreme court get involved.
- All boys are transferred to new court
- The girls who were "raped"Victoria Price and Ruby Bates were prostitutes who made everything up
- All defendants were released after serving an average of 10 years
*The story of the Scottsboro Boys is one of the most shameful examples of injustice in our nation's history.
*A black was presumed guilty unless he could establish his innocence beyond a reasonable doubt.
*The cases show that to jurors, black lives didn't count for much.
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