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	Scottsboro Boys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The case of the Scottsboro Boys arose in Alabama during the 1930s, when nine fl youths ranging in age from thirteen to nineteen, were accused of raping two white women, one of whom would later recant.
		The trials, in which the boys were convicted and sentenced to death by all-white juries despite the weak and contradictory testimonies of the witnesses, are regarded as one of the travesties of the United States justice system.
		All of the Scottsboro Boys were eventually paroled, freed or pardoned, except for Haywood Patterson, who had been tried and convicted of rape and given the death penalty four times.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottsboro_Boys (832 words)

	THE CASE OF THE "SCOTTSBORO BOYS"
		The Scottsboro case was not simply an isolated instance of injustice, the Communists argued, but represented a common manifestation of national oppression and class rule in the South.
		Moreover, although the "Scottsboro Boys" the defendants were denied the right of counsel.
		For the new Scottsboro trials, whichopened on March 27, 1933, the ILD had retained renowned criminal lawyer Samuel Leibowitz.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/88/scottsboro.html (540 words)

	Scottsboro, Alabama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scottsboro is a city in Jackson County, Alabama, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.
		In the 1930s, the town hosted the notorious Scottsboro Boys trial.
		Scottsboro is home to the one and only Unclaimed Baggage Center.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottsboro,_Alabama (544 words)

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		There were more trials and retrials, and through all the years The Scottsboro Boys stayed in jail, suffering things unspeakable at the hands of prison guards and inmates, and sometimes some of them tried to give as good as they got.
		The Scottsboro Boys brought to the fore all the thousands of fl men who had been lynched on the trumped-up charge of rape.
		It was in the case of the Scottsboro Boys that the United States Supreme Court declared that denial of competent legal counsel was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendmentâs due process clause.
	abc.eznettools.net /tonyabolden/excstrong2.html (1474 words)

	\| Mother Ada Wright and the International Campaign to Free the Scottsboro Boys, 1931–1934 \| The American ...
		Four of the "Scottsboro Boys," Roy and Andy Wright, Eugene Williams, and Heywood Patterson, had grown up in Chattanooga, Tennessee; the Wrights were the sons of Ada Wright, a widow and a domestic servant in Chattanooga.
		This reassessment of Scottsboro is concerned primarily with the construction of the Scottsboro case by the ILD and its international sister organization, Red Aid, and addresses the role of Communist work "among Negroes" through the lens of the case.
		Once the decision was made to provide the Scottsboro Boys with basic assistance over the coming years, the party, through the means of the ILD and International Red Aid outside the United States, plunged the defendants and their families into the world of proletarian internationalism.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ahr/106.2/ah000387.html (10852 words)

	CNN.com - Entertainment - The Scottsboro Boys: Nine lives overlooked, lost - April 2, 2001
		The case of the "Scottsboro Boys" did not end there, but instead went on to became an international cause celebre that reached the highest court in the land.
		The Scottsboro case had been filmed before -- a 1976 TV movie called "Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys" -- and had been the topic of a Court TV special.
		"Scottsboro was significant because it embodied a period in Alabama history where there was a movement to at least show that justice could be done in an Alabama courtroom," he said.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/02/scottsboro/index.html (1002 words)

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		The boys, after convicted, were given just barely the 90 days which is required by law to appeal, after these 90 days they were to be put to their deaths.
		The Scottsboro boys were subject to much prejudice during their trials and were even almost lynched the day of their accusations.
		Their work (or lack of) for the defense of the boys was one of the reasons why the first trial ended with a guilty verdict.
	www.assumption.edu /users/McClymer/his261/ScottsboroNotes.html (2661 words)

	Race Matters - Scottsboro American Tragedy
		This was the beginning of one of America's most notorious racial dramas, that of "the Scottsboro Boys," who spent many years in prison facing the death penalty in what came to be seen as a blatant case of injustice.
		In many ways, their journey to Scottsboro was a replaying of the events of 70 years ago, when outsiders -- mostly Northern journalists, lawyers and members of the American Communist Party (which eventually paid for the defense and publicized the case) -- flocked to the town, thrusting it under scrutiny.
		In the film, Sybil Washington, who co-wrote the autobiography of one of the Scottsboro Boys, Clarence Norris, described him hearing the cries of the condemned, the sound of the switch being thrown on the electric chair during executions.
	www.racematters.org /scottsboroamericantragedy.htm (1525 words)

	Scottsboro Case - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		SCOTTSBORO CASE [Scottsboro Case] In 1931 nine fl youths were indicted at Scottsboro, Ala., on charges of having raped two white women in a freight car passing through Alabama.
		In a series of trials the youths were found guilty and sentenced to death or to prison terms of 75 to 99 years.
		The belief that the case against the "Scottsboro boys" was unproved and that the verdicts were the result of racism caused 1930s liberals and radicals to come to the defense of the youths.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-scottsbo.html (444 words)

	SCOTTSBORO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nine fl boys, suspected of having scuffled with whites aboard the train were arrested.
		By the end of the tortuous affair, the Scottsboro boys were not the only ones put on trial, but Southern attitudes, conventions, and institutions as well.
		SCOTTSBORO, AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY dramatically exposes some of the deepest stains in American life and how in the rush to exploit the situation for their own ends, many overlooked that the lives of nine young men hung in the balance.
	www.filmstransit.com /scottsboro.html (261 words)

	JURIST - The Trial of the "Scottsboro Boys"
		Nine captured fls, soon to be called "The Scottsboro Boys," were tied together with plow line, loaded on a flatback truck, and taken to a jail in Scottsboro.
		The Scottsboro Boys spent the two years between their first trials and the second round, scheduled to begin in March, 1933 in Decatur, in the deplorable conditions of Depression-era Alabama prisons.
		Free of Alabama, but not of the label "Scottsboro Boy" or from the wounds inflicted by six years in prison, they went on with their separate lives: to marriage, to alcoholism, to jobs, to fatherhood, to hope, to disillusionment, to disease, or to suicide.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /trials4.htm (6029 words)

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		The case of the Scottsboro Boys is one of the most tragic cases in American history.
		Six of the Scottsboro boys had denied seeing, let alone raping, the two girls; unfortunately, confessions had been beaten and threatened out of the other three.
		Ozie Powell, another Scottsboro boy, got himself in more trouble when he slit the throat of a deputy sheriff who was transporting him.
	www.svsu.edu /~anking/Scottsboro.htm (719 words)

	Julian Burnside - The Scottsboro Boys
		Nine fl boys (aged 13 to 19) were riding on the train, sitting in an open freight car.
		The only serious injury suffered by the white boys was to their pride, and they informed the railway officials that they had been attacked.
		The central allegation made by Victoria Price was that the nine Scottsboro Boys had raped her in the freight wagon.
	www.users.bigpond.com /burnside/scottsboro.htm (1373 words)

	A Scottsboro Chronology
		December: The Scottsboro Defense Committee is formed, composed of all agencies cooperating in the defense.
		The Scottsboro Defense Committee is composed of representatives of the International Labor Defense, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Methodist Federation for Social Service, the League for Industrial Democracy, and the Church League for Industrial Democracy (Episcopal).
		Allan Knight Chalmers, chairman of the Scottsboro Defense Committee, accuses Governor Bibb Graves of reneging on a gentlemen's agreement.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/boyle/chronology.htm (1846 words)

	The Scottsboro Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The freespirited Americans was in rage after the case of The Scottsboro Boys.
		The white boys, and two girls who were with them, told the conducter what had happened, and the conducter alarmed the police, who waited at the next stop, and the nine boys was arrested for raping the two white girls.
		The boys wern't killed, and all of them, besides one, got out on parole, but at that time they were all men in their 30's.
	www.angelfire.com /goth/thrillerkiller/TheScottsboroBoys (229 words)

	Race Matters - The 'Scottsboro' Ordeal and Its Indelible Stain
		The title may have been inspired by the historian Dan T. Carter's 1969 book, ''Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South.'' It was the basis for ''Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys,'' the well-meaning if stolid television docudrama of the late 1970's.
		''Scottsboro'' makes clear that the case had taken on the dimensions of a tableau from Russian literature, although the failings that led to the trial were all too American.
		''Scottsboro'' is all the more tragic because it made focal points -- and martyrs -- of nine farm boys whose minor crime (hitching a train ride to find work) changed the course of legal procedure in this country.
	www.racematters.org /scottsboroboystragedy.htm (707 words)

	Subject: Scottsboro Boys
		Scottsboro boys are nearly lynched by crowd of over 100 gathered around Scottsboro's jail.
		On the date first set for their executions, the Scottsboro boys listen to the execution of Willie Stokes, the first of ten fls to be executed at the prison over the next ten years.
		The Scottsboro cases are removed from Judge Horton's jurisdiction and transferred to Judge William Callahan's court.
	www.humboldt.edu /~go1/sed741/film/scottsboro.html (1709 words)

	DCVB Scottsboro Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Known as “The Scottsboro Boys,” the case would eventually change forever U. criminal law, resulting in two important decisions of the U. Supreme Court affecting criminal procedure, and would even ripple through the international community of the 1930s.
		The station master telegraphed ahead to Scottsboro, Ala., a town about 18 miles west of Stevenson, to have the train stopped, but the freight had already passed there, so Paint Rock, Ala., some 20 miles farther, was notified by telegraph.
		The SDC was formed by the ILD with the American Scottsboro Committee, the NAACP, the Norman Thomas’ League for Industrial Democracy, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Methodist Federation for Social Service.
	www.decaturcvb.org /Pages/Press/scotboy.html (1205 words)

	Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"Scottsboro" looks at the racist attitudes exuded by Southern whites, attitudes responsible for the four-time convictions of each of the nine Black men in the case, in the face overwhelming evidence in the men's favor.
		And the International Labor Defense, a communist group whose efforts helped internationalize the Scottsboro Nine case and gain large support of a moral and financial nature for the Nine, are given time in Anker and Goodman's documentary.
		A wealth of important books on the Scottsboro Nine case exist (see amazon.com), and Barak and Goodman's documentary serves as a good start to a viewer's research on this disturbing injustice of the legal system, not an end.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0240885 (511 words)

	Tolerance.org: MARKING HISTORY: A 73-Year Wait in Scottsboro
		The Scottsboro Boys were nine fl teenagers on a Memphis-bound train traveling through the hills of Jackson County on March 25, 1931.
		The Scottsboro Boys brought largely unwanted national, even international, attention — some say stigma — to this southern town, where nine fl boys lost years of their lives to the white lie of justice.
		So 332 words grace a new plaque, mounted on a 4-foot-tall steel post at the back door of the Courthouse, where, it is believed, the Scottsboro Boys would have been led from the jailhouse a block south — now torn down, replaced by a brick juvenile court building — on their way to trial.
	www.tolerance.org /news/article_tol.jsp?id=930 (1747 words)

	CRFC: Scottsboro Portfolio
		Be sure that you include the name of the newspaper, its motto, at least three articles, at least one editorial and one letter to the editor, and one cartoon.
		You may opt to make a site that portrays a particular viewpoint (for example, it could be the official NAACP version of the Scottsboro boys' trials) or one that presents information objectively (such as a mock newspaper site).
		Letter to the Scottsboro Boys: Write a letter to one or all of the Scottsboro boys explaining your experience in studying their ordeal and in creating this portfolio.
	www.crfc.org /americanjury/CRFCScottsboroPortfolio.htm (1104 words)

	AFRO-Americ@: The Scottsboro Boys
		he Scottsboro Boys (the young men were named after the Alabama town where they were tried for the first time) ranged in age from 13 to 21.
		An all-white jury in the court room of Judge E. Hawkins convicted eight of the boys, declaring a mistrial in the case of 13-year-old Roy Wright.
		From the very beginning, the boys' parents were passionate in the defense of their offspring.
	www.afro.com /history/scott/scotts.html (1029 words)

	Amazon.com: Stories of Scottsboro: Books: James E. Goodman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Goodman manages to incorporate a multitude of details in a style that is highly readable and engrossing, whether the reader be an historian or merely one interested in the tragedy of the case.
		For, the case of the Scottsboro Boys extends well beyond the mendacious accusations and the cowardly jury verdicts attendant to the trials.
		Yet it is an excellent example of the the state of race relations in the South (not that there are too many surprises there), the role of moderate judges in reconciling racial injustice, the influence of the Communist/Socialist Parties in the 1930's as well as a number of other splinter stories.
	www.amazon.com /Stories-Scottsboro-Vintage-James-Goodman/dp/0679761594 (1809 words)

	The South Speaks
		The Scottsboro case has slowly attained world-wide publicity owing to the efforts of the International Labor Defense, which fought the case successfully before the United States Supreme Court and won a new trial-in Alabama.
		The townsfolk were fully aware of the fact that the schools of Scottsboro and Jackson County had been shut down by the cost of the original trial and appeal.
		Knight's chief assistants were Solicitor Bailey of Scottsboro and Wade Wright, a solicitor of Morgan County, who made the now-famous Jew-baiting summary to the jury.
	newdeal.feri.org /nation/na33465.htm (2154 words)

	Alibris: Scottsboro
		Included are the surprising story of the last surviving Scottsboro defendant and the vivid description of Victoria Price's libel suit against the network that televised the drama and subsequent trial--presumably the last of...
		An astonishing and innovative retelling of one of the landmark cases in the civil rights battles of this century--in which nine young fl men were tried and convicted three separate times for raping two white women, and were finally freed by the Supreme Court.
		The one day trial of the nine men, better known as the "Scottsboro Boys, " resulted in conviction and the death sentence despite a paucity of evidence.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Scottsboro (636 words)

	village voice > film > Scottsboro: An American Tragedy; Snatch by Amy Taubin
		Committed to organizing fls in the Depression-devastated South, the CP saw the "legal lynching" of the Scottsboro boys as a rallying point.
		In 1943, the state of Alabama began paroling the five imprisoned Scottsboro boys one by one.
		In terms of the film as a whole, Patterson's singularly poetic passage is a case of too little too late, as is the similarly moving final sequence—newsreel footage of a tearful Clarence Norris at a press conference in 1976, just after he had accepted a full pardon from Alabama governor George Wallace.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0103/taubin.shtml (1183 words)

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