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Scottsboro Trails. Initial Incident. fight between a group of whites and blacks The blacks forced the whites off the train Whites get the train stopped Authorities round up nine black youth Two girls accuse the boys of rape. The Scottsboro Boys. Haywood Paterson- eighteen years old.
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Initial Incident • fight between a group of whites and blacks • The blacks forced the whites off the train • Whites get the train stopped • Authorities round up nine black youth • Two girls accuse the boys of rape
The Scottsboro Boys Haywood Paterson- eighteen years old Charles Weems- nineteen years old Clarence Norris- eighteen years old Andy Wright- nineteen years old Ozie Powell- sixteen years old Olen Montgomery- seventeen years old Willie Roberson- seventeen years old Eugene Williams- Thirteen years old Roy Wright- thirteen years old
The Accusers • Victoria Price a 21 year old female • Ruby Bates an 18 year old female • These two accused the nine boys of rape
The First Trials 1931 • Four separate cases • All the boys were either sentenced to death or life in prison • No blacks had served on the jury • The case is appealed
Later Trials • Ruby Bates denied being raped • The boys are continually convicted • Patterson and Norris are sentenced to death • Wright and Weems are sentenced to live in prison • Powell gets 20 years • The other four are pardoned
End Results • By the end all of the boys ended up being pardoned • Most of the boys died soon after they were pardoned • Norris died at age 76 as the oldest Scottsboro boy
Works Cited • http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm last accessed Nov. 17th 2011