Dani Lough, Andrew Edie,Mickey Orminston, and

Kyle O’Brien

Scottsboro Trial

Clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asUfc5TKahg

Background On March 25, 1931, several people were hoboing on a train. Several white boys jumped off the train and reported to the sheriff they had been attacked by a group of black boys. The sheriff, stopped and searched the train and, arrested the 9 black boys, and found two white girls who accused the boys of rape. The case was first heard in Scottsboro, Alabama in three rushed trials, where the defendants received poor legal representation. All but thirteen year old Roy Wright were convicted of rape and sentenced to death.

No proofAs people started to look into the trial they

noticed that their was no proof that the boys raped, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. Ruby Bates actually told the truth and said that the boys never raped her and that her and Victoria were prostitutes and were illegally leaving and were afraid that they were going to get in trouble so they yelled, rape. This didn’t release the boys or change the way they were treated.

• These Boys lives were ripped away from them for a crime that they didn’t commit.

• At the very least they spent 6 years of their lives in prison being beat and whipped.

• They were just boys the oldest being 19 and the youngest being 13.

• They got no sunlight and very little food.

Ages at time of arrest • Haywood Patterson – 18 years old• Olen Montgomery – 17 years old• Charles Weems – 16 years old • Clarence Norris- 19 years old• Andy Wright – 19 years old • Roy Wright – 13 years old • Ozie Powell – 16 years old• Eugene Williams – 13 years old • Willie Roberson – 16 years old

Musical

Book• Haywood Patterson wrote a book about his

experience , and called it the Scottsboro boys.

MovieJudge Horton & The Scottsboro Boys

(1976) movie trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrScKm7E1pM

Document

Even though the constitution was around during this time. The Scottsboro Trial brought the fact that Blacks were no at all equal. People noticed that they were truly not being treated equally.

Boys with the national guard Boys with Leibowitz (Their Lawyer)

in jail

4 of the Boys after their release Ruby Bates and Victoria Price

Crowd outside the court house of the Scottsboro

Trial

Works Cited • "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_Trial." Scottsboro Boys.

Wikipedia, 8 11 2013. Web. 13 Nov 2013. • "http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/Scottsboro/

SB_bSBs.html." The Scottsboro Boys. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Nov 2013. • Salter, Daren.

"http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1456." Scottsboro Trials. Encyclopedia of Alabama , 19 4 2013. Web. 13 Nov 2013.

• "Judge Horton & The Scottsboro Boys (1976) movie trailer ." Youtube.com. N.p.. Web. 14 Nov 2013.

• "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asUfc5TKahg." The Scottsboro Boys . Youtube. Web. 14 Nov 2013.