ScottsBorotrials
Paul Davila and Cece Ninnie
The reason
Scottsboro case, major U.S. civil rights controversy of the 1930s surrounding the prosecution in Scottsboro, Alabama, of nine black youths charged with the rape of two white women.Scottsboro case.
During the trial
Despite testimony by doctors who had examined the women that no rape had occurred, the all-white jury convicted the nine, and all but the youngest, who was 12 years old, were sentenced to death.The announcement of the verdict and sentences brought a storm of charges from outside the South that a gross miscarriage of justice had occurred in Scottsboro.
citations
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The Scottsboro Boys in jail, 1931 . Fine Art. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 9 Oct 2015.
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