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  2. Scottsboro Boys - Wikipedia

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    On March 24, 1932, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled against seven of the eight remaining Scottsboro Boys, confirming the convictions and death sentences of all but the 13-year-old Eugene Williams. It upheld seven of eight rulings from the lower court.

  3. Norris v. Alabama - Wikipedia

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    The Scottsboro trial jury had no African-American members. Several cases were brought to the Supreme Court to debate the constitutionality of all-white juries. [1] Norris v. Alabama centered around Clarence Norris, one of the Scottsboro Boys, and his claim that the jury selection had systematically excluded black members due to racial prejudice ...

  4. Samuel Leibowitz - Wikipedia

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    Although he worked as counsel in dozens of notorious trials, Leibowitz is best remembered as counsel for the Scottsboro Boys, nine Southern African-American youths who were falsely accused of rape and sentenced to death in Alabama in 1931. After the US Supreme Court overturned the convictions in Powell v.

  5. Overturned convictions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Scottsboro Boys were nine black juveniles convicted of an alleged 1931 rape of a white girl, eight of whom were initially sentenced to die by the electric chair. All were later either pardoned or had their convictions overturned. Jefferson County

  6. Nine Black boys were falsely accused of rape in 1931. This ...

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    Celebration Arts and St. Hope present ‘Direct from Death Row: The Scottsboro Boys’ at Guild Theater. Nine Black boys were falsely accused of rape in 1931. This playwright is sharing their story

  7. Patterson v. Alabama - Wikipedia

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    This case was the second landmark decision arising out of the Scottsboro Boys trials (the first was the 1932 case, Powell v. Alabama). Haywood Patterson, along with several other African-American defendants, were tried for raping two white women in 1931 in Scottsboro, Alabama. The trials were rushed, there was virtually no legal counsel, and no ...