As they deboarded, two women decided to get off too.
After the women decided to get off, they shouted “rape”. The women soon reported the incident to a stationmaster, who notified officials to stop the train at the town of Paint Rock. “Dozens of armed men rounded up [the] nine black youths and took them to jail” (The Scottsboro Case 1931). They were about to be charged with assault, until two white women were found hiding on the train wearing boy’s clothes. Even though there was no proof connecting the young black males to the women, the nine black males were charged with raping the women. A trial was then held in the town of Scottsboro, Alabama. As the trail began, no hope for the young black males existed because all the people in court house, and the jury, were white, “The courtroom was one big smiling white face." (qtd. In IN THEIR OWN WORDS). As the all-white jury convicted the nine young black males, all were to be sentenced to death except the youngest one who was only thirteen years