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Group 5--Scottsboro Boys AJ Rhoades Terry Keppler Blaine Recker Nick Allsup

Hello there, this is a summary of the Scottsboro Boys. These 8 negros where tried as adults. It all starts on a train, that the boys, and that the two girls where on as well. The boys where on a freight car when they where attacked by a group of white men. These men told the local police and they stoped the train and this is when they where found and the girls made there appearance of saying that they where raped. This led to the boys being sent to prison eight of them where tried as adults and the youngest who was the only one not tried as an adult. He was latter tried as an juvenile and they tried him for the case and he was charged with rape. During most of the trial ruby bates was no where to be found which left Victoria price to be mostly the only witness for herself and ruby. In the sentencing four of them where relised of charge and the five others where imprisoned up to 75 years to life in prison, and the oldest was sentence to the electric chair.



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