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Scottsboro Trial: Most Tragic Epoch's Of African-American History

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Scottsboro Trial Two young women is all it takes to create one of the most tragic epoch's of African-American history after the abolishment of slavery. When Victoria Price, and Ruby Bates decide to ride the rails to look for some incentive in their lives, they witness an opportunity to ruin nine young black boy's life. A fight broke out after a gang of white boys agitated, and tried to force a gang of black boys to jump off a train. When the black group prevailed, they couldn’t even imagine what laid ahead at the next stop. The train was brought to a halt in the town of Scottsboro, Alabama. Surrounding the train was a group of officers, and men, armed and looking irate. Two white women emerged from the train and stated that they have been raped. The group took the black boys to a jail to be tried in the coming days. …show more content…

There was said to be a crowd of about 10 000 people outside, with armed soldiers guarding a picket line.The first to the stand was Ruby Bates the youngest. She was questioned for a short period of time, then Victoria Price. Victoria Price was an arrogant, cocky women who was sarcastic during the trial. Where Ruby on the other hand was soft spoken, and it seemed that Victoria dominated this friendship. Their story was: The girls stayed over night at a Ms. Brochie's residence, and took the train to look for work the next morning. On the train a group of blacks kicked a group of whites off the train. One of them, Charlie Weems waved a pistol in the air while the others attacked the girls and raped

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Nine boys Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell, Clarence Norris, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Haywood Patterson, Eugene Williams, and Andrew and Roy Wright were accused of raping two white women on a freight train, on March 24, 1931. The boys were caught for illegally riding on a freight train, and were originally charged with that until one of the police found the two white women VIctoria Price, and Ruby Bates and pressured them into saying that the boys had raped them on the freight tra in. All the Scottsboro boys were sentenced to death in the first trial, except Roy Wright who was only 13 was sentenced to life in prison. After two more trials with an all white jury, got the attention of the nation because it was showing how racist the U.S court system was. Ruby Bates eventually went out and retold her statement saying that she was pressured into telling the jury that the Scottsboro boys had raped them.

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