The Scottsboro boys were nine young black men, who got accused of raping two white women.
On March 25, 1931, nine black unemployed black men were illegally riding the rails looking for work, but they were taken off a freight train at Scottsboro, Alabama and held on a minor charge
Two women accused of the nine black men of raping them and they were eight sentenced to death
The communist party took this case on and they sparked a mass defense movement.
The communist party began a national protest campaign to overturn the conviction
In 1937, the case went to the United States Supreme Court and the nine men’s lives were saved
The Scottsboro Boys is one of the proudest movements of American radicalism, in which a mass movement of blacks and whites-
On March 25, 1931, nine black unemployed black men were illegally riding the rails looking for work, but they were taken off a freight train at Scottsboro, Alabama and held on a minor charge
Two women accused of the nine black men of raping them and they were eight sentenced to death
The communist party took this case on and they sparked a mass defense movement.
The communist party began a national protest campaign to overturn the conviction
In 1937, the case went to the United States Supreme Court and the nine men’s lives were saved
The Scottsboro Boys is one of the proudest movements of American radicalism, in which a mass movement of blacks and whites-