1931
Scottsboro, AL · On map
Nine Black teenagers were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train, leading to all-white jury convictions and death sentences despite dubious evidence. The trials became a national symbol of racial injustice in the South, attracting intervention from the ACLU and NAACP, and are now studied as a landmark case of discriminatory legal processes [2].
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