In November 2012, the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles pardoned three black men who 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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Episode Sources

Scottsboro Trials. Accessed December 14, 2022. 

“Scottsboro Boys” Trials (1931-1937). Famous Trials by Douglas O. Linder. Accessed December 10, 2022. 

Without Fear or Favor: Judge James Edwin Horton and the Trial of the “Scottsboro Boys” By Douglas O. Linder. Accessed December 10, 2022 

The Saga Of The Scottsboro Boys. Accessed January 2, 2023. 

The Scottsboro Trials: A Legal Lynching. Accessed January 2, 2023. 

The Scottsboro Boys: Injustice in Alabama. Accessed December 15, 2022. 

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