Scottsboro Trails
Initial Incident
• fight between a group of whites and blacks• The blacks forced the whites off the train• Whites get the train stopped• Authorities round up nine black youth• Two girls accuse the boys of rape
The Scottsboro BoysHaywood Paterson- eighteen years old
Charles Weems- nineteen years old
Clarence Norris- eighteen years old
Andy Wright- nineteen years old
Ozie Powell- sixteen years old
Olen Montgomery- seventeen years old
Eugene Williams- Thirteen years old
Willie Roberson- seventeen years old
Roy Wright- thirteen years old
The Accusers
• Victoria Price a 21 year old female• Ruby Bates an 18 year old female• These two accused the nine boys of rape
The First Trials 1931
• Four separate cases • All the boys were either sentenced to death or
life in prison • No blacks had served on the jury• The case is appealed
Later Trials
• Ruby Bates denied being raped• The boys are continually convicted• Patterson and Norris are sentenced to death• Wright and Weems are sentenced to live in
prison• Powell gets 20 years• The other four are pardoned
End Results
• By the end all of the boys ended up being pardoned
• Most of the boys died soon after they were pardoned
• Norris died at age 76 as the oldest Scottsboro boy
Works Cited
• http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm last accessed Nov. 17th 2011