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The Scottsboro Boys, with attorney Samuel Leibowitz, under guard by the state militia, 1932. The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American male teenagers accused of raping two white women in 1931. The landmark set of legal cases from this incident dealt with racism and the right to a fair trial.
Norris v. Alabama, 294 U.S. 587 (1935), was one of the cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that arose out of the trial of the Scottsboro Boys, who were nine African-American teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women in 1931. The Scottsboro trial jury had no African-American members.
This case was the second landmark decision arising out of the Scottsboro Boys trials (the first was the 1932 case, Powell v. Alabama). Haywood Patterson, along with several other African-American defendants, were tried for raping two white women in 1931 in Scottsboro, Alabama. The trials were rushed, there was virtually no legal counsel, and no ...
Celebration Arts and St. Hope present ‘Direct from Death Row: The Scottsboro Boys’ at Guild Theater. Nine Black boys were falsely accused of rape in 1931. This playwright is sharing their story
An endowed law professorship of trial advocacy at Cornell, once held by renowned lawyer, judge, and lecturer Irving Younger, is named after Leibowitz. Leibowitz was played by Timothy Hutton in Heavens Fall, a 2006 film based on the Scottsboro Boys incident of 1931. Leibowitz's name is dropped in the play The Man Who Came to Dinner.
Thomas E. Knight, Jr. (June 19, 1898 – May 17, 1937) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama from 1935 to 1937, and the 19th Attorney General of Alabama from 1931 to 1935. He was a native of Greensboro, Alabama.
White's first major struggle as leader of the NAACP centered on the Scottsboro Trial in 1931. It was also a case that tested the competition between the NAACP and the American Communist Party to represent the black community. The NAACP and Walter White wanted to increase their following in the black community.
And in 1931, the "Trial of the Century" took place in the Jim Crow South, as the nine Black teenagers known as "The Scottsboro Boys"stood trial in a court case so prejudiced and unjust that it ...