Nick Crusco 10/09/2013 Mr. Cooper Criminal Justice Powell v Alabama A group of African-American youths were on a freight train through Alabama. They got into a fight with some white youths‚ throwing the white boys from the train. A message was sent‚ requesting all blacks be removed from the train. Two white girls on the train testified that they had been raped by six different youths in turn. The youths were taken into custody. The community was very hostile‚ as a mob met the youths. The trial
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Intro Background story: On March 25‚ 1931‚ seven young white men entered a railroad stationmaster’s office in northern Alabama. They claimed that while they were riding the rails‚ a "bunch of Negroes" picked a fight with them and threw them off the train. The stationmaster phoned ahead to the next station‚ near Scottsboro‚ Alabama. A Scottsboro deputy sheriff made deputies of every man in town with a gun. When the train stopped‚ the posse (group of people legally authorized keep the peace) rounded
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Seaver Williams On March 25‚ 1931‚ on a train going through Alabama‚ a fight between nine young African Americans and seven young white men took place. Powell and his African American friends ended up throwing all but one of the white men off the train. There were also two white women on the train who claimed they were sexually assaulted. They were escorted to jail when they arrived at Scottsboro. They were put on trial on March 31 for the rape of the two white women and were found guilty and sentenced
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episodes of legal injustice in the Jim Crow South. The events that culminated in the trials began in the early spring of 1931‚ when nine young black men were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train. The cases were tried and appealed in Alabama and twice argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite evidence that exonerated the accused and even a retraction by one of the accusers‚ the state pursued the case and all-white juries delivered guilty verdicts that initially carried the death penalty
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that the Scottsboro boys were actually innocent‚ and they made attempts to compete with the Communist party to make the case their own‚ however‚ they were too late because the CPUSA had claimed the case and the mothers of Haywood Patterson and Ozie Powell had placed their trust in them to bring freedom to the Scottsboro
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Weems was paroled in 1943‚ while Powell and Norris were paroled in 1946. The last to be parolled was Wright who was allowed to leave in June of 1950. The last one Patterson managed to escape in 1948 and flee managed to flee to Michigan where he was protected by the governor of Michigan Mennen Williams who refused to extradite Patterson to Alabama to face trial. However‚ three years later he would be convicted of manslaughter after having
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episodes of legal injustice in the Jim Crow South. The events of the Scottsboro Trials that culminated in the trials began in the early spring of 1931‚ when nine young black men were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train (Encyclopedia of Alabama : Scottsboro Trials 1). This case was more hectic than any other event in the South because it revealed the barbarous treatment of blacks. The announcement of this verdict brought the sentences to an uproar of protest in the North. Every boy was sentenced
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began when a brawl between whites and blacks took place while riding a freight train through northern Alabama in 1931 (Boyer). When Jackson County Officials stopped the train‚ two white women appeared from the freight train and accused nine black teens of raping them. One of those women was Victoria Price. Victoria Price was born on January 20‚ 1911. She grew up in the poor parts of Huntsville‚ Alabama. She had first gone into work as a spinner along side her mother at the age of ten. When her mother
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Work Cited Page Aretha‚ David. The Civil Rights Movement; The Trial of the Scottsboro Boys. North Carolina: Morgan Reynolds‚ 2008. Uschan‚ Michael V. Landmark Events in American History; The Scottsboro Case. Wisconsin: World Almanac Library‚ 2004. Linder‚ Douglas O. Famous American Trials. 1999. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_hrrep.html. Johnson‚ Claudia D. Scottsboro Trial. 1994. The Greenwood Publishing‚ Inc. http:// library.thinkquest
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takes place in Maycomb‚ Alabama during the 1930s‚ where African Americans were segregated by white men. Harper Lee said that the Scottsboro trial‚ which was a trial that started because of discrimination‚ inspired her on writing To Kill a Mockingbird. Despite the differences between the Scottsboro Boys and To Kill a Mockingbird‚ both of them had an impact on the racial implications and laws of the south. The Scottsboro Trials was a sad tragedy that took place in Alabama during the 1930s. While
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