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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Msu Libraries: Digital Collections: Scottsboro Boys

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary source documents and texts related to the trial of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African American teens who were tried for the crime of rape in Alabama in 1931. It was widely seen as a gross miscarriage of justice and went to trial...
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Alabama Humanities Foundation

Encyclopedia of Alabama: History Scottsboro Trials

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia entry about the prosecution, in Scottsboro, Alabama, of nine young African Americans charged with the rape of two white women. The trials focused the nation's attention on the racist forces at work in Jim Crow south in 1930s...