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Bookmark or Share- The Scottsboro Boys | National Museum of African American History and ...Only four of the young African American men knew each other prior to the incident on the freight train, but as the trials drew increasing regional and national attention they became known as the Scottsboro Boys.
- Scottsboro Boys: Trial, Case, Harper Lee & Names ‑ HISTORYThe Scottsboro Boys, nine Black teenagers accused of raping two white women on a train near Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931, endured several lengthy court trials.
- The Scottsboro Boys - National ArchivesThe Scottsboro Boys case began on March 25, 1931, when nine young black men and boys hopped aboard a Southern Railway train in search of work in Memphis, Tennessee. The youngest were 13-year-olds Eugene Williams and Roy Wright.
- Scottsboro case | Racial Injustice, Jim Crow Laws, & Alabama - BritannicaScottsboro case, major U.S. civil rights controversy of the 1930s surrounding the prosecution in Scottsboro, Alabama, of nine Black youths falsely accused of raping two white women. The nine, after nearly being lynched, were brought to trial in Scottsboro in April 1931, just three weeks after their arrests.
- The Scottsboro Boys Story | Decatur Scottsboro Boys Civil Rights Museum ...In Alabama, one of the most egregious acts of injustice occurred during the 1930s when nine Black youths were falsely accused of assaulting two white women. The youth became known as the Scottsboro Boys.
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