Scottsboro Boys Research Paper

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Scottsboro Boys Trial It’s been twenty years since the trial and the last boy has been freed from prison. A trial that took six years, got to the supreme court, captured national attention, and beat the a racist Jim Crow system. March 25, 1931, nine black unemployed boys are riding a train in search for work. In Jackson County they are detained for a minor charge, along with them two white women also riding illegally and looking for work are detained. Local police pressure the two women, Ruby Bates and Victoria Prince, into falsely accusing the nine black boys of raping them to avoid charges. By April 9, all the boys have received a death sentence except for the youngest who receives life imprisonment. The American Communist Party, who’s