The Scottsboro Boys

The freespirited Americans was in rage after the case of The Scottsboro Boys. No jury would ever have convited them, but because they were black, they were convicted for the crime they were in trial for. There were nine boys, the oldest were 21, and the youngest 13. Four of them were almost considered as being retarded, one was blind and had VD, and only three of them could read and write. These boys got in a fight, with four white boys, when they all tried to get on a train. The white boys, and two girls who were with them, told the conducter what had happened, and the conducter alarmed the police, who waited at the next stop, and the nine boys was arrested for raping the two white girls. There was no doctors who claimed to had found prove of the girls being raped, and there was no witness' but because of the rage among the people, the boys was pleaded guilty. Beside the youngest boy, they were all sentenced to death. This was in April 1931, which was the beginning, but not the end, to the Scottsboro case. Alot of protests from the negroy lead to a new trial, but even though Ruby Bates, one of the white girls, admitted at the second trial, that niether her or the other girl were actually raped, it didn't change anything, and the nine Scottsboro Boys were still to die, but that made Ruby Bates go to the White House, to demand the nine black boys released. This didn't help much, and this terrible story doesn't really has an ending. The boys wern't killed, and all of them, besides one, got out on parole, but at that time they were all men in their 30's.

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