Group+2--Scottsboro+Boys+Tribute

Group 2--Scottsboro Boys Tribute Dylan Paris-summary info Blake Streicher-summary info Dan Franzen-pictures, captions, and links Aaron Klett-video

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===The Scottsboro Boys endured a tragic situation involving two women on a freight train accusing them of rape. These nine boys were caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. The boys went through very hard times and beatings in their prison stay. Almost everyone in America wanted them killed even though there was no solid evidence that they were rapists. === ===On March 25th 1931 a train arrived in Scottsboro. Several white men claimed to have been beaten by a gang of black men. Also two white women (Ruby Bates 17 & Victoria Price 21) came off the train and said that these boys had raped them. The boys were immediately caught and convicted of rape and sentenced to death. The boy’s names were Olen Montgomery (17), Clarence Norris (19), Haywood Patterson (18), Ozie Powell (16), Willie Roberson (16), Charlie Weems (16), Eugene Williams (13), and Andy (19) & Roy (12) Wright. === ===A mob was formed outside of the jail where the boys were being held, because the white citizens wanted these men lynched. The sheriff Matt Wann had to call in the National Guard to suppress the riots and chaos. However the Communist Party and other groups the world were providing support. Later eight of the boys were sentenced to death by electrocution but Roy Wright was too young for the death penalty. === ===The jury found these boys guilty. They were originally sentenced to death, but later four of the nine had charges dropped. The other five had sentences that ranged from 75 years- death, one was shot by a prison guard, two escaped prison only to be caught and thrown back in prison, and Clarence Norris escaped parole in 1946 and went in to hiding. ===

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