The Scottsboro Boys
The inspiration for Tom Robinson's trial
in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
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| The Nine Scottsboro Boys |
In 1931, nine black youths ages 13 to 19 were pulled from a train, arrested and taken to nearby Scottsboro, Alabama, where they were jailed, tried, and declared guilty of raping two white women — a crime that never occurred. All-white, male juries quickly sentenced eight to death. A long-term and ultimately successful campaign to save the youths’ lives and, in time, exonerate them led to one of the most dramatic and revealing civil rights struggles in U.S. history.
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| Ruby Bates & Victoria Price, the boys' accusers |
CHECK OUT THESE SITES
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
The Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center: http://scottsboro-boys.org/
A great website that goes into detail about the trial and its participants: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys
The online companion to American Experience's Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (the video we watched in class): American Experience: Scottsboro
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