The Scottsboro Boys were nine innocent African American teenage boys who were tried and convicted of rape in Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931, in a terrible miscarriage of justice. Tom Robinson represents the Scottsboro Boys because he gets accused of the same thing and is also sentenced to death even though he is innocent. He is only convicted because of his color. The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenage boys accused of rape in Alabama in 1931. The Scottsboro Boys, as they became known, at the time were defended by many in the North and attacked by many in the South.
the scottsboro trial has lasted for about 45 years.
They were treated bad.
Samuel Leibowitz
1931
All of the Scottsboro boys were released form jail eventually, none of them died from execution.
The Scottsboro Boys were nine innocent African American teenage boys who were tried and convicted of rape in Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931, in a terrible miscarriage of justice. Tom Robinson represents the Scottsboro Boys because he gets accused of the same thing and is also sentenced to death even though he is innocent. He is only convicted because of his color. The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenage boys accused of rape in Alabama in 1931. The Scottsboro Boys, as they became known, at the time were defended by many in the North and attacked by many in the South.
the scottsboro trial has lasted for about 45 years.
they were young brothers of the scottsboro boys and they had no idea what this peiceofshitnigga was on about
They didn't want to die
the white boys who got forced of the train by the black boys.
The Scottsboro Boys are famous due to a scandalous trial that accused the boys of a crime. Now due to their skin color the boys were given an unfair trial and wrongfully found guilty.
one was the others were not
They were treated bad.
http:/www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/SB_acct.html try this site it has everything you need to know
because they were white
Samuel Leibowitz