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Scottsboro Boys

On the night of March 25, 1931, a sheriff posse in Paint Rock, Alabama stopped a freight train traveling from Chattanooga, Tennessee. They arrested nine young black men on the train. They also found two young women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, dressed in men's overalls.
Price claimed she was raped by six of the young men, while Bates claimed the other three raped her. The nine men, from Chattanooga and different parts of Georgia, ranged in age from 12 to 20. They were roped together and taken to the Jackson County Jail in Scottsboro, Alabama. That night, a mob gathered outside the jail, but the governor sent in the National Guard to protect the young men, later known as the Scottsboro Boys.
In the midst of a firestorm generated by the womens’ allegations, a crowd of ten thousand people came to town for the trials of the men. Judge A.E. Hawkins tried to figure out who would represent the nine defendants. Chattanooga attorney Stephen Roddy, who was unfamiliar with Alabama law......


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