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The American Communist Party refuted the charges and convictions by throwing rallies and marches until a letter from one of the women (Ruby Bates) said that she was not raped by the boys and shortly after she stated that the other woman(Victoria Price) was with her the entire time and could not have been raped.

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The Scottsboro boys appealed on there trial under new evidence and 4 were later released from jail and death row, 5 were put in prison on life sentences. Haywood Patterson managed an escape from prison, and then he wrote a book about about themselves, he was then later arrested by the FBI.

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During the trial, Leibowitz announced that he was resting his case and asked for a short recess. Minutes later, the National Guardsman opened the door to the court room. In walked Ruby Bates. Under direct examination, Ruby Bates had finally let out the truth with the advice of the New York minister Harry Emerson Fosdick to return to Alabama and tell the truth about what had really happened on March 25, 1931. Bates claimed there was no rape and that none of the defendants touched her or even spoke to her. And to avoid moral charges Price told her to "Frame up a story." BUT, this country was so Bias against blacks in the early 1900's, it didn't change their death sentence. After the trail Bates returned east with Leibowitz and became the leading lady at ILD- sponsored Scottsboro rallies were she would attempt to justify for the boys.

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The cases were sent to the supreme court twice and both times the court said to restart the cases and with the testimony of ruby bates constantly saying that prosecution had nothing to charge them on and that the rape accusations were false one of the boys was still sentenced to death 4 times

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This is important because it shows the difficulty of navigating the american court system and how hard it was to escape prejudice during the 1930s

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The trail took place in Scottsboro Alabama.  The jury was all white which had bias because blacks were not seen as equals.

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Before the Scottsboro Boys were accused of the crime a fight broke out on the train. The fight was between a group of whites and the Scottsboro boys. The fight started because one of the whites stepped on Pattersons (a person in the Scottsboro boys) hand. The kids ran off and told the people at Stevenson Depot that they were assaulted by the group of blacks.

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Now a days the court system is more racially diverse. The jury doesn't just contain white males. Trails are fairer for all races, genders, economic status, etc. but there is still room to improve.

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The Scottsboro Boys consist of 9 people, everyone 20 or under.

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Its an article

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No crime in American history-- let alone a crime that never occurred-- produced as many trials, convictions, reversals, and retrials as did an alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers on the Southern Railroad freight run from Chattanooga to Memphis on March 25, 1931.

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A lot of the judges were prejudice or racist. For example one  of the judges by the name of Alfred E. Hawkins stated that the Scottsboro Boys were guilty and it was a waste of time and money for the blacks to have a trail.

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The women who were allegedly ¨raped¨ were really just trying to get across state lines and had heard about the boys who had fought on the train and they were told to go along with this so that  ¨we can put some more n*****rs in jail¨ was said by the state patrol men

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The Scottsboro Boys were falsely accused of raping two white women. 8 of them were sentenced to death and the youngest ones (12 and 13) were sentenced to life in prison.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ei_2XAKhrvduQrxJdKigHxckR3g-TgQzLrZJDqkb6kI/edit?usp=sharing