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Scottsboro Boys Trial.

Date Submitted: 01/08/2004 09:29:48
Category: / Society & Culture
Length: 3 pages (688 words)
Views: 136125

The Scottsboro Trial No crime in American history, produced as many trials, convictions, reversals, and retrials as "The Scottsboro Boys" trial. The irony of it is... the crime never occurred. The case was about an alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers on a Railroad freight on March 25,1931. On March 24, 1931, two mill girls named Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, dressed in overalls, hoboed a freight train to Chattanooga, Tennessee. According to …

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…to do a bad act. Because of Victoria Price and Ruby Bates doing these things, these 9 boys were charges with raping them. Causing them much grief and agony. This trial went on for a good 3 years. This case brief should show people that you should always tell the truth, no matter what happens. If you lie, like the girls did then you will get yourself caught up in something you shouldn't be caught up in.

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