THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
SCOTTSBORO TRIALS
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Question
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The lead lawyer against the boys was named Scottsboro.
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The lead lawyer defending the boys was named Scottsboro.
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The oldest boy in the group was named Scottsboro.
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The first jail that they were put into was in Scottsboro.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The original cases were tried in Scottsboro, Alabama. Only four of the young African American men knew each other prior to the incident on the freight train, but as the trials drew increasing regional and national attention they became known as the Scottsboro Boys.
Detailed explanation-2: -That drama revolved around nine Black youths charged with raping two white girls on a freight train in Alabama. The youths became known as the Scottsboro Boys, and the case became a window into the South’s unremittingly brutal system of justice.
Detailed explanation-3: -The trial of the youngest, 13-year-old Leroy Wright, ended in a hung jury when one juror favored life imprisonment rather than death. A mistrial was declared, and Leroy Wright would remain in prison until 1937 awaiting the final verdict on his co-defendants.