USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Outraged by the Supreme Court’s interference, Alabama again put the boys on trial. In April 1933, Haywood Patterson, the first of the Scottsboro defendants to be retried, was again found guilty.

Detailed explanation-2: -After being falsely accused of rape in 1931, Patterson spent the next sixteen years in Alabama courtrooms and prisons. Tried four times, Patterson was convicted and sentenced to death three times, before receiving a seventy-five year sentence from his fourth jury.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Scottsboro Boys endured 16 trials, two United States Court reversals, as many as four series of death sentences, and prison terms ranging from 6 to nearly 17 years.

Detailed explanation-4: -The case of nine young African American men accused of the rape of two white women in the town of Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931, was a milestone in the emergence of a national civil rights movement.