Injustice in Alabama “They whipped me and it seemed like they was going to kill me. All the time they kept saying, “now will you tell?” and finally it seemed like I couldn’t stand no more and I said yes” (Leroy “Roy” Wright). On March 25, 1931, the Scottsboro Boys were convicted and sentenced to death for raping two white girls, Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, on a train setting course to Memphis, Tennessee. All were sentenced to death but one whose name was Leroy “Roy” Wright was instead sentenced into life in prison. The struggle for the justice of Wright that he was an innocent man states an exemplary of racism through the concepts of the case and concrete details supporting it. Obviously, Wright is innocent. But, the Jury believes