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Feb 22, 2018 · In the first set of trials in April 1931, an all-white, all-male jury quickly convicted the Scottsboro Boys and sentenced eight of them to death. The trial of the youngest, 13-year-old Leroy...
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Apr 15, 2013 · SCOTTSBORO, Alabama -- As the process gets underway to pardon the Scottsboro Boys, nine black young men unjustly accused in 1931 of raping two white women, their unusual case is being...
The Scottsboro Boys is a staged musical portrayal of the Scottsboro case. The show premiered Off Broadway in February 2010 [149] and moved to Broadway's Lyceum Theatre in October 2010. The show received good reviews, but closed on December 12, 2010.
Mar 24, 2021 · 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. On April 9, 1931, eight of the nine young men were convicted and sentenced to death.
The case of the Scottsboro Boys provided an unforgettable window into the South’s brutal system of justice — and how it failed Black Americans. By Ellis Cose. July 27, 2020. In 1931, the ACLU released its “Black Justice” report.
Defense attorney Samuel Leibowitz immediately picked them up from their jail, drove them out of the state, and put them on a train to New York. In New York, Leibowitz had planned to place the...
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.
