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Scottsboro Boys 

Scottsboro Boys . By: Stefany , Kayla , Madisone , Fisher , and Elisha. The Scottsboro Boys.

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Scottsboro Boys 

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  1. Scottsboro Boys By:Stefany, Kayla, Madisone, Fisher, andElisha

  2. The Scottsboro Boys The Scottsboro Boys were faced with more charges, trials, reversals and retrials than any crime committed in American history. Let alone a crime that never occurred. The nine boys were charged with the rape of two white girls named Ruby Bates and Victoria Price.

  3. The Boys The names of the 9 defendants that were charged were Olen Montgomery (age 17), Clarence Norris (age 19), Haywood Patterson (age 18), Ozie Powell (age 16), Willie Roberson (age 16), Charlie Weems (age 16), Eugene Williams (age 13), and brothers Andy (age 19) and Roy Wright (age 13).

  4. Their lives The lives of the boys was changed drastically. They went through many horrible years trying to fight the system. Some were sentenced to death. The boys went through several trials and stayed in jail for many years.

  5. The Trials The trials of the boys went extremely fast. Jackson County Judge Alfred Hawkins presided at the first four trials before a standing-room-only, all-white audiences. Ultimately, the youths were defended by the only lawyers the parents could afford: a Chattanooga real estate lawyer, Stephen Roddy, and Milo Moody, a 69-year-old lawyer who had not defended a case at trial in decades.

  6. Relationship To Kill a Mockingbird The Scottsboro Boys and To Kill a Mockingbird are related by they both have trials of black men being accused of raping white girls. The jury knows the black men are innocent, but they can not vote on saying the black men are not guilty because they were racists back then and it’s a black vs. a white.

  7. The End 

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