* 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.

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.

" 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

While the Tennessee Valley did not have large Native American settlements at the time of the first white settlers, there was a Cherokee town named " Crow Town " near where Scottsboro is located today.

On January 20, 1870, Scottsboro was incorporated by the Alabama Legislature.

In 1906, local blacksmith H. C. Payne built Scottsboro ’ s first homemade automobile, which was made with a wooden frame, four sprocket wheels, and hand-powered cranks.

In 1912, the courthouse was demolished and an election was held to determine whether the courthouse would be moved to Stevenson or stay in Scottsboro ( some Stevenson residents did not think Scottsboro deserved the role of county seat ).

Scottsboro won the vote and the present courthouse was built ( before the renovation and expansion in 1954.

The defendants were brought to Scottsboro for trial, because it was the county seat of Jackson County.

The case was, in reality, many cases that were tried only in the first instance in Depression era Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931.

In 1900, Scottsboro was home to about 1, 000 residents.

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.

In 1991, Glenn Summerford, pastor of The Church of Jesus Christ With Signs Following ( in Scottsboro, Alabama ), was arrested for the attempted murder of his wife, Darlene.

The case was first heard in Scottsboro, Alabama in three rushed trials, where the defendants received poor legal representation.

It was market day in Scottsboro, and farmers were in town to sell produce and buy supplies.

" Patterson snapped, " I was framed at Scottsboro.

As to Wright's reference to " Jew money ", Leibowitz pointed out that he was defending the Scottsboro Boys for nothing and was paying his wife's expenses.

* Scottsboro: A novel, a 2008 novel by Ellen Feldman nominated Orange Prize for Fiction

Scottsboro ’ s founder, Robert Thomas Scott, served in the Alabama Legislature for almost 20 years and later ran a hotel in Bellefonte.

Many of the county ’ s towns pushed for their selection, but the leading candidates were Hollywood, Stevenson, Larkinsville, and Scotts-borough ( Scottsboro ).

He constantly gave generously to local causes in Scottsboro and paid for the higher education of many Scottsboro school children.

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.

She said she was " sorry for all the trouble that I caused them ", and claimed she did it because she was " frightened by the ruling class of Scottsboro.

Ellen Feldman's 2009 Scottsboro: A Novel was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and is a fictionalized account of the trial told from the point of view of Ruby Bates and a journalist, Alice Whittier.

In 1998, Court TV produced a television documentary on the Scottsboro trials for its Greatest Trials of All Time series.

His father was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ), a fund-raiser for the Scottsboro Boys ' defense, and a 20-year member of the campus police of Harvard College.

At age 18, she covered the Scottsboro case in Alabama, then worked for the International Labor Defense, which handled the defendants ' appeals.

MacLean moved further left as a result of the Scottsboro Boys case joining the Defense League for the Scottsboro Boys with which the Communist Party USA was heavily involved.