THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
SCOTTSBORO TRIALS
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Question
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The two women didn’t know each other before the incident on the train.
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Victoria Price was the leader and Ruby Bates followed her.
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Ruby Bates was the leader and Victoria Price followed her.
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The two women lived in the same apartment, but barely spoke to each other.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Victoria Price testified that six raped her and six, Ruby Bates. Three of the ones who attacked Ruby got off before the train stopped at Paint Rock, Victoria said. She alleged that Charlie Weems was the leader and carried a pistol, but that Clarence Norris was the first one to attack her.
Detailed explanation-2: -Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, two white women who were also riding the freight train, faced charges of vagrancy and illegal sexual activity. In order to avoid these charges, they falsely accused the Scottsboro Boys of rape. The original cases were tried in Scottsboro, Alabama.
Detailed explanation-3: -The case was dismissed. In 1982, Victoria Price died without ever having apoligized for her role in the injustice visited upon the Scottsboro Boys.
Detailed explanation-4: -Price was the promiscuous, hard drinking, hard swearing daughter of a Huntsville widow who lived in a poor, racially mixed section of town. She made love in box cars and fields, slept in hobo jungles, and rode the rails in a pair of beaten overalls.