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The Scottsboro Boys

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The Scottsboro Boys

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  1. The Scottsboro Boys Ekam Singh Gursharan Singh Esmeralda Chavez Alyssa Estrada

  2. The Boys • Charles Weems • Clarence Norris • Andy Wright • Ozie Powell • Olen Montgomery • Eugene Williams • Willie Roberson • Roy Wright • Haywood Patterson

  3. Accusations • On March 25, 1931 a white young man stepped on a young black mans hand while on a train • Train: Chattanooga to Memphis • Stone throwing battle • Black youths won • White youths forced off train • Black teens arrested

  4. Ruby Bates • A white 18 year old teenager • 1931 • Accused three black men of rape • 1932 • Forced to write a letter • 1933 • At the end, she testified that there was no rape, but her being with her boyfriend that night.

  5. Victoria Price • 21 years old when Scottsboro Boys were accused • Bad job- $1.20 per hour for five to six days a month • Met up with Bates on train because of unsuccessful job hunt • Went to jail because of adultery • When examined, there was semen in her vagina

  6. Trial • Twelve days after incident • Articles already published • Two attorneys • Unprofessional • Old- 70 years old • Held all boys together • Judge James Edwin Horton Jr. • Sentenced Haywood Patterson • Postponed trials

  7. Mistrial • Third Attorney (Samuel Leibowitz) • Took over after death penalty sentence • Bates and Price were only witnesses • Testimonies rambling and not understandable • Six boys • Claimed they had never seen the women before • Three boys • Claimed that they did rape the girls

  8. Quick Facts • When visitors came to visit the boys in the they described them as “Terrified, Bewildered.” • They were only allowed to leave cells one to two times a week while handcuffed • They lasted 10 years in jail

  9. Bibliography • Ruby Bates. Digital image. AP: The Big Story. AP Photo, n.d. Web. 3 Sept. 2014. <http://www.bigstory.ap.org/photo/ruby-bates>. • "Biographies of the Scottsboro Boys." Biographies of the Scottsboro Boys. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Sept. 2014. <http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/SB_bSBs.html>. • "People & Events: Ruby Bates, 1915 - 1976." PBS. PBS, 2000. Web. 3 Sept. 2014. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/peopleevents/p_bates.html>. • Alabama Posthumously Pardons Last Of The Scottsboro Boys. Digital image. Drjays.com Live. Jrjays.com, n.d. Web. 4 Sept. 2014. <http://live.drjays.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scottsboro-boys-in-jefferson-county-everett.jpg>. • "People & Events: Judge James Edwin Horton Jr., 1878 - ?" PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 04 Sept. 2014. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/peopleevents/p_horton.html>. • "Victoria Price." Victoria Price. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Sept. 2014. <http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/SB_BPric.html>.

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