American Experience: Scottsboro - an American Tragedy

In the spring of 1931 nine black teenagers riding a freight train across northern Alabama were arrested and charged with raping two women on board the train. The two-decade struggle to prove the "Scottsboro Boys'" innocence would reach the Supreme CoIn the spring of 1931 nine black teenagers riding a freight train across northern Alabama were arrested and charged with raping two women on board the train. The two-decade struggle to prove the "Scottsboro Boys'" innocence would reach the Supreme CoIn the spring of 1931 nine black teenagers riding a freight train across northern Alabama were arrested and charged with raping two women on board the train. The two-decade struggle to prove the "Scottsboro Boys'" innocence would reach the Supreme CoIn the spring of 1931 nine black teenagers riding a freight train across northern Alabama were arrested and charged with raping two women on board the train. The two-decade struggle to prove the "Scottsboro Boys'" innocence would reach the Supreme CoIn the spring of 1931 nine black teenagers riding a freight train across northern Alabama were arrested and charged with raping two women on board the train. The two-decade struggle to prove the "Scottsboro Boys'" innocence would reach the Supreme CoIn the spring of 1931 nine black teenagers riding a freight train across northern Alabama were arrested and charged with raping two women on board the train. The two-decade struggle to prove the "Scottsboro Boys'" innocence would reach the Supreme CoIn the spring of 1931 nine black teenagers riding a freight train across northern Alabama were arrested and charged with raping two women on board the train. The two-decade struggle to prove the "Scottsboro Boys'" innocence would reach the Supreme Co