THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
SCOTTSBORO TRIALS
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Question
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They really liked the name Scottsboro.
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The lawyer defending the boys was named Scottsboro.
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The judges name was 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 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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Scottsboro defendants were ultimately saved from execution, but they languished in prison for years. Even after being released, most never fully recovered from their ordeal. Their story has rightly been called ‘an American tragedy.
Detailed explanation-5: -March 30: A grand jury indicts all nine “Scottsboro Boys.” April 6-7: Before Judge A. E. Hawkins, Clarence Norris and Charlie Weems are tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. April 7-8: Haywood Patterson is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.