A explanation of the story and trial of the Scottsboro Boys.
Who were the Scottsboro 9 and what happened to them? The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women aboard a train near Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931. The trials and repeated retrials of the Scottsboro Boys sparked an international uproar and produced two landmark U.S. Supreme Court verdicts and their injustice during their trial lead to several legal reforms.
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