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The Scottsboro Boys

Imagine you are put on trial for a crime you didn't commit and the sentence is death. Imagine that you are tried over and over again, and each time you go back to death row. This became reality to nine young boys on March 25, 1931. When the Scottsboro boys were convicted, everyone involved was extremely happy. Yet when the boys persuaded the judges to have retrial after retrial, it became a mess. Despite the conflicting testimonies of the Scottsboro boys, Victoria Price, and Ruby Bates, the court was able to discern the truth and deliver justice to everyone surrounding the trial. The Scottsboro trials were important because the sixth and fourteenth Amendment was challenged and carried through and the evidence presented was undeniable.
On March 25, 1931 a deputy sheriff group in Paint Rock, Alabama stopped a freight train traveling from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Hoboeing was a common "pastime" in the Depression year of 1931. It was when men, and sometimes women, caught trains......


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