The+Scottsboro+Trial

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Peter's Breaking News the NAACP and the International Labor Defence or for short ILD battle to represent the Scottsboro boys but the NAACP drop from it. Ruby Bates sends a letter to Earl Streetman, it siad she denies being raped. The ILD send Samuel S. Leibowitz to be the boys Lawyer. Eugene Williams' conviction is reversed because he was a juvenile under state law in 1931. Haywood Patterson was found guilty and sentenced to death by electric chair, hows that for "SHOCKING."



THE FACTS OF THE EVENT

The Scottsboro Case, a terrible event that occured during the Great Depression in the early 1930's. The trial consisted of nine men on trial with charges of rape and assault. The men on trial: Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Haywood Patterson, Olen Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Willie Roberson, Eugene Williams, and Andy Wright were convicted and sentenced to death. After compelling evidence is found, the case is suspended, and for a while it goes through a confusing cycle until removed from Judge Horton's juristiction.