The Scottsboro Boys
Nolan slachetka
The Boys
- The Scottsboro Boys were nine boy that were in Scottsboro, Alabma and they were sentenced to death for a crime of raping two girls.
- Charges agaist five of the boys were droped.
- One day on a freigt train all nine boys got arested and charged with assault
- They were put infront of a all white dury that had very weak evidence
- They were all sentenced to the electric chair except 13 year old Roy Wright
Roy Write
Roy was was 13 when the boys were charged with alsult. He was the youngest of the boys but he had a older brother the was also part of the boys. He was sent to jail for life. But they droped all charches on him in 1937. Roy shot his wife and then shot him self.
The Scottsboro Boys
These are all nine of the boys.
The Girls
this is a picture is a picture is of the victims
events
nine African American youths who were indicted in Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931 and quickly sentenced to death for the crime of rape of two young white women.
on March 25, 1931, with a racial skirmish between blacks and whites who were hitching a ride on a Southern freight train.
Alabama, the police arrested nine black youths from 13 to 21 years old and charged them with assault.
work cited page
Kaplan, Rich. "Scottsboro Boys case." American History. ABC-CLIO, 2014. Web. 16 Jan. 2014.