Scottsboro Boys
- The Scottsboro boys were sentenced for rapeof two white woman.
- This is a incident involving 9 african american youths.
- Many people thought the Southern criminal justice system was being racial.
- One of the boys died in in prison from cancer in 1952 the others escaped.
- The Scottsboro boys all got charged with crime and eventually died.
Some of the Scottsboro boys.
This is a picture of some of the boys before crime.
In court for sentencing.
This is one of the Scottsboro boys being sentenced for death in court.
Scottsboro boys in jail
The Scottsboro boys being held in jail.
More facts about the Scottsboro crime.
- The boys were sentenced to death.
- Some of the boys escaped from jail.
- The boys got realeased at a point.
- There were new laws made.
- More african americans got more rights.