Group+6--Scottsboro+Boys+Tribute

Group 6--Scottsboro Boys Tribute Anthony McMurtry Jett Kuhens Larry Hunt Jake Falck __The Scottsboro Boys Tribute__  This is a sad tragic story about nine boys that were accused of rape on a train. This just sickens me!!! The names of the young African Americans caught in this fiasco by raping young white woman, Victoria Price, Ruby Bates, were, Clarence Norris, Hayward Patterson, Charlie Weem, Eugene William, Olin Montgomery, Andy Wright, Osie Powell, Willie Robeson, and Roy Wright.This caused quite a large feud between whites and blacks. [] Over the course of the twenty years that followed the trail, the struggle for the justice of the "Scottsboro Boys," as the black teens were called, made celebrities out of anonymities, wasted lives, produced heroes, opened southern juries to blacks, exacerbated sectional strife, and divided America's political feud.

Eight of the boys were sentenced to death and the youngest boy was sentenced life in prison. media type="youtube" key="t8G97qduuhM" height="315" width="420" These boys were found guilty by the jury. Originally they were sentenced to death, but later four out of the nine charges on the boys were droped. The five other boys had sentences reaching from 75 years- death, Two of the boys had escaped prison only to be caught and thrown back in, the other boy was shot by one of his prison guards, and Clarence Norris escaped parole in and went in to hiding in 1946.