The real-life Scottsboro Boys: A Timeline of Injustice
1931: On March 25, a fight breaks out between groups of young black and white men on a freight car in Alabama. Nine black youths, age 12 to 19, are arrested, and rape charges are added based on the accusations of two white women. In April, the boys are tried and found guilty " eight are sentenced to die by electric chair, but a mistrial is declared for Roy Wright, the youngest. Throughout the year, progressive o…