The Scottsboro Boys

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The Scottsboro Boys

• Brought to you by the greats
• Nick Deloyola
• Gurbakhs Bhandal
• Gary Sandhu

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Incident at the Train

• March 24, 1931 Black and white youths
• Ruby Gates is touched
• Convicted of Rape

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Arrest and Lynch Mob

• Taken to Scottsboro Jail
• A lynch mob assembles demanding the group be
  surrendered
• Sheriff Wann defends the Scottsboro Boys
• National guard comes to defend

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Let the Trials BEGIN

• Prisoners brought to court
• A tense and hostile environment
• Market day in Scottsboro

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Norris and Weems Trial

• Dr. Bridges found no vaginal tearing
• Semen was found in her for several hours
• Ruby claims other girls were raped

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Patterson Trial

• Accused for shooting
• Claims he was in the gondola car
• Brother claims he had nothing to do with the girls

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Powell, Roberson, Williams, Montgomery and Andy
Wright Trial

• Accused of all having knifes
• Claimed to split into 2 groups of six
• Witnesses claim to see no sign of rape
• Supporting the boys, were claimed guilty

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Death Sentences

• The eight convicted sentenced to electrocution
  death.
• Execution set for July 10, 1931

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Final Decisions

• After a lengthy appeals to the US supreme court
  and Decatur trials in KKK territory.
• Hayward Patterson convicted of rape-sentenced to
  75 years
• Clarence Norris sentenced to death, later escaped
  and pardoned
• Andrew Wright paroled in 1950
• Charlie Weems paroled in 1943
• Ozie shot in the face by officers and released in
  1946

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Aftermath

• The trials made a long step towards the fight of
  equal rigths, although there was still a long way
  to go afterwards.

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Did You Know?

• Rudy Bates was lying and in the end the
  Scottsboro Boys were proved innocent in a way,
  but were convicted of other crimes. Justice
  didnt listen to Ruby Bates because her story was
  phony.
• The judicial system wasnt fully developed and
  there was ignorance toward blacks, which caused
  the lengthy process of freeing the convicted.
• The Scottsboro boys deserved full compensation
  for their troubles against this corrupted case.
  Even though they didnt receive compensation,
  they desrve it as they went through a lot of
  trouble and wasted most of their lives in trial
  or jail.

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Works Cited

• PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 05 Sept. 2014.
• "The Trials of The Scottsboro Boys." The Trials
  of The Scottsboro Boys. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Sept.
  2014.