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… Continue reading Episode 119 The Scottsboro Boys
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Episode 109 Bloody Bob Sims and the Sims War
In the late 1880s Bob Sims declared himself a prophet with more than 100 followers in his Choctaw County Alabama cult. His belief that no man could establish laws over him led to a bloody chapter in Alabama history