Falsely Accused: The Scottsboro Trial

Being falsely accused of a crime that was not committed is always difficult, but for nine black men in a very segregated Alabama, this was a case of unimaginable racism. Those nine men were the Scottsboro Boys, as people called them.
Likewise, the Scottsboro Boys are innocent and did not rape the two women that accused them.The prosecutors claim that the nine men raped Ruby Bates and Victoria Price. They also say that the nine men were the ones who started a large fight on a railroad car, and because they had initiated the fight, they had to be vicious. The two women also claim that they threatened the group of white men, along with themselves, with pistols and knives. The women say that the men would threaten to hurt them if they did not