In November of 2012, the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles pardoned three men. Haywood Patterson, Charlie Weems, and Andy Wright. The three black men had been wrongly convicted of assaulting two white women in 1931. They were the last of nine young men associated with the case to have their convictions officially cleared from the record. Their arrest and the trials that followed served as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
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Learn More About The Scottsboro Case
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Episode Sources
Scottsboro Trials. Accessed December 14, 2022. http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1456
“Scottsboro Boys” Trials (1931-1937). Famous Trials by Douglas O. Linder. Accessed December 10, 2022. https://famous-trials.com/scottsboroboys
Without Fear or Favor: Judge James Edwin Horton and the Trial of the “Scottsboro Boys” By Douglas O. Linder. Accessed December 10, 2022 https://famous-trials.com/scottsboroboys/2387-without-fear-or-favor-judge-horton-and-the-scottsboro-boys
The Saga Of The Scottsboro Boys. Accessed January 2, 2023. https://www.aclu.org/issues/racial-justice/saga-scottsboro-boys
The Scottsboro Trials: A Legal Lynching. Accessed January 2, 2023. https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1789&context=facpub
The Scottsboro Boys: Injustice in Alabama. Accessed December 15, 2022. https://www.archives.gov/files/publications/prologue/2014/spring/scottsboro.pdf
Episode Music
No 7 Alone with My Thoughts by Esther Abrami. Licensed under a Creative Commons License
Theme Song “Dark & Troubled” by Pantherburn. Special thanks to Phillip St Ours for permission for use
