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In 1976, NBC aired a TV movie called Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys, based on the case. In 1998, Court TV produced a television documentary on the Scottsboro trials for its Greatest Trials of All Time series. [145] A premiere screening and discussion was held at Columbia University on July 21, 1998 in conjunction with the New York NAACP.
The notorious Scottsboro Boys cases (Norris v. Alabama, 294 U.S. 587 (1935); and Patterson v. Alabama, 294 U.S. 600 (1935)) arose from charges against nine African American teenagers and young men, ages 13 to 20, accused in Alabama of raping two white women in 1931.
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 ...
The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment. [ 6 ] 2021's Grateful American Book Prize was given virtually to Alan Gratz for Ground Zero: A Novel of 9/11 , while "Honorable Mentions" went to Chris Stevenson's The Cannon of Courage: Gabriel Cooper & the Noble Train of Artillery , and Michaela MacColl's View ...
The ILD defended Sacco and Vanzetti, was active in the anti-lynching, movements for civil rights, and prominently participated in the defense and legal appeals in the cause célèbre of the Scottsboro Boys in the early 1930s. Its work contributed to the appeal of the Communist Party among African Americans in the South.
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
March 25 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with sexual activity. April ... 2021) Dean Smith, basketball player and coach (d. 2015) March.
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 ...