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The Scottsboro Boys had served long prison sentences when the arch segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace, in one of history's ironies, partially mitigated this widely construed injustice ( after the United States Supreme Court had failed to do so twice ) by issuing a pardon in 1976 for the one remaining Scottsboro defendant still subject to the Alabama penal system.
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* 1937 – Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called " Scottsboro Boys ".
* 1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
He was a member of the NAACP, which at the time was collecting money to support the defense of the Scottsboro Boys, a group of black men falsely accused of raping two white women.
* March 25 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
* October 25 – Clarence Norris, the last known survivor of the Scottsboro Boys, is pardoned.
* July 24 – Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called Scottsboro Boys.
* Most nominated with fewer wins: The musical The Scottsboro Boys ( 2011 ) was nominated for 12 Tony Awards but did not win any.
This was the location where the Scottsboro Boys were arrested.
Plaque Commemorating " Scottsboro Boys " Trial
The Scottsboro Boys case was among the most important cases in the history of American Jurisprudence.
The case of the Scottsboro Boys arose in Scottsboro in 1931, when nine black youths, ranging in age from twelve to twenty, were accused of raping two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, one of whom would later recant.
" In January 2004, amidst television cameras and radio and newspaper reporters, a crowd gathered near the Jackson County Court House in Scottsboro to dedicate a historical marker commemorating the Scottsboro Boys ' trial and their struggle for justice.
The Scottsboro Boys Museum was opened in February, 2010.
The Supreme Court had ruled in Powell v. Alabama,, the famous case of the Scottsboro Boys, that the Sixth Amendment's Assistance of Counsel Clause included a right to appointed counsel in certain capital cases, and that this right as incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Although the plot involves an unsuccessful legal defense similar to one undertaken by her attorney father, the 1931 landmark Scottsboro Boys interracial rape case may also have helped to shape Lee's social conscience.
The final collabroation between the two was The Scottsboro Boys, which played on Broadway for a short time in 2010.
* The Scottsboro Boys ( 2010 )
* The Scottsboro Boys ( 2010 )
2010 saw the premiere, first off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre, and then on Broadway at the Lyceum, of The Scottsboro Boys, a musical with lyrics by Ebb, music by Kander, and book by David Thompson.
In 2009, filmmaker Ken Burns announced plans to make a film about the case, which he compares to the Scottsboro Boys case.
** The Scottsboro Boys – Book by David Thompson, music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb
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The two years that had passed since the first trials had not dampened community hostility for the Scottsboro Boys.
In the courtroom, the Scottsboro Boys sat in a row wearing blue prison denims and guarded by National Guardsmen, except for Roy Wright, who had not been convicted.
Leibowitz had called a John Sanford, an African American of Scottsboro.
Without the " vivid detail " she had used in the Scottsboro trials, Victoria Price took only sixteen minutes to tell her story.
Five of the original nine Scottsboro defendants testified that they had not seen Price and Bates until the train stopped in Paint Rock.
On cross-examination Knight confronted him with previous testimony from his Scottsboro trial that he had not touched the women, but that he had seen the other five defendants rape them.
A National Broadcasting Company TV movie Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys was aired in 1976 and contained the assertion that the defense had proven that Price and Bates were prostitutes ; both sued NBC over their portrayals.
The Tom Robinson trial of To Kill a Mockingbird is often said to be based on the Scottsboro case, however, Harper Lee said in 2005 that she had in mind something less sensational, although the Scottsboro case served " the same purpose " to display Southern prejudices.
The League was particularly active in organizing support for the " Scottsboro Boys ", nine black men sentenced to death in 1931 for crimes they had not committed.
Scottsboro and served
Scottsboro ’ s founder, Robert Thomas Scott, served in the Alabama Legislature for almost 20 years and later ran a hotel in Bellefonte.
Scottsboro and prison
Patterson escaped from prison in 1948 and published The Scottsboro Boy in 1950, before being caught by the FBI.
During his brief prison stay, Father Divine read prodigiously, notably on the Scottsboro Nine.
He was also famous for refusing to extradite Haywood Patterson, one of the Scottsboro Boys a prison escapee who was incarcerated, upon shaky testimony, for the rape of two white women.
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Fortunately, the Scottsboro defendants benefited from their two landmark triumphs in the United States Supreme Court mostly from the fact that they were all relieved from their death sentences they received at their first trial in Scottsboro.
On March 24, 1932, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled against seven of the eight remaining Scottsboro Boys, confirming the convictions and death sentences of all but the 13-year-old Eugene Williams.
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In 1932, Scottsboro officially became a " city " when an act of the Alabama Legislature bestowed that title on towns with more than 2000 inhabitants.
He is still fondly remembered in Scottsboro for having gone to his namesake Caldwell School in Scottsboro and giving every child in the school a shiny new quarter, at a time when that was a lot of money for a child to receive.
Scottsboro and Alabama
Locust Fork straddles Alabama Highway 79, which is a north-south route running from Birmingham northeastward to Scottsboro.
Scottsboro is a city in Jackson County, Alabama, United States.
On January 20, 1870, Scottsboro was incorporated by the Alabama Legislature.
The case was, in reality, many cases that were tried only in the first instance in Depression era Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931.
King Caldwell Park, Scottsboro, Alabama
Jackson County Historical Association, Scottsboro, Alabama 1935 ( reprinted 1993 ), ISBN 0-9638815-0-7
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