Scottsboro Boys Research Paper

Nine young African American men, later known as the Scottsboro boys, by names of Haywood Patterson, Clarence Norris, Andy Wright, Roy Wright, Ozzie Powell, Willie Roberson, Charles Weems, Eugene Williams, and Olen Montgomery jumped aboard a empty freight train that was going through Alabama. Seven white young men along with two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, have also jumped aboard on the train for transport throughout Alabama. A fight has happened between the two groups and six of the white men have been thrown off the train. The white men were furious so they decided to send a message ahead to the town of Scottsboro to report what happened. The local sheriff and a group of citizens stopped the train before it could reach Scottsboro and the two white woman have declared that they have been raped by the African American men. The Scottsboro boys were taken …show more content…
The sheriff wasn’t able to stop the angry people and promise the safety of the nine men that were accused so he called the Alabama National Guard. Twelve days later the trial for the Scottsboro boys was started. On the day of the trial there were was an attorney who wasn’t from the town had appeared and declared that he can’t represent the Scottsboro boys so there was no attorney on the day of the trial. A Chattanooga real estate attorney offered to help any Alabama lawyer the court might hire even though he never did a criminal case before, was not enlisted in the Alabama bar, and was not familiar with the Alabama law. The judge had appointed lawyers for the purpose of to defend the Scottsboro boys because he didn’t want to impose the attorneys he wasn’t willing to hire any specific attorney to justify the boys. As an alternative, he asked for volunteers. An local, old attorney who didn’t do a case in years volunteered to do