Group+1--Scottsboro+Boys+Tribute

media type="custom" key="13898684"Group 1--Scottsboro Boys Tribute Vinnie Boock Chris Hettinger Matt Cook Gabe Hamlett

This is the story about the Scottsboro Boys who were tried as criminals in the alleged rape on a train of Ruby Bates and Victoria Price. There were nine boys in the trial. Their names were Hayward Patterson, Clarence Norris, Charlie Weem, Eugene William, Olin Montgomery, Osie Powell, Andy Wright, Roy Wright, and Willie Robeson. They were all young African Americans. The story that Victoria Price and Ruby Bates told was that these nine boys had gotten on the same train car they were on, had beaten up the white boys the on the car, kicked the boys off, and held these two down and raped them.

When the boys were arrested many southerners did not want to let them have a trial, they just wanted to hang them. When they did get to the jail, the sheriff was over whelmed by the crowd and turned in his badge. After doing so he called the national guard who came in and secured the jail. After the jail was secured then the trial was arranged.

In the first trial, the nine boys had a real estate attorney for a defense lawyer. All nine of the boys were found guilty and all but Roy Wright, the youngest of the group, were to be put to death in an electric chair. After it was declared a mistrial for the denial of a competent lawyer, the boys were to be retried. This time they would have one of the best attorneys in the country, a defense lawyer by the name of Samuel Leibowitz from New York City.