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