Scottsboro Boys

By: Erica Schnippel

William Whitten Russell Saputo

Benjamin Welihan

Who were the Scottsboro Boys?

9 black teenage boys who allegedly raped two white girls on March 25,

1931

The Trial

• The trial date was April 7, 1931• 12 days after the alleged rape • Took place in the courtroom of Judge A.E.

Hawkins

NAACP

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• NAACP were on the defendant side of the Scottsboro Boys Trial

Communist Party

• The Communist Party saw the case as a great The Communist Party saw the case as a great recruiting tool among southern blacks and recruiting tool among southern blacks and northern liberalsnorthern liberals

• Through its legal arm the labor defense Through its legal arm the labor defense pronounced the case against the boys as a pronounced the case against the boys as a “murderous frame-up”“murderous frame-up”

• They began efforts to be named as their attorneys.

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Defense Lawyers

• The defense lawyers cared more about their own benefits then the boys welfare

• They didn’t have any connetions with the boys• They were in it for the money

Works Cited

• http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scottsboro/sb_acct.html

• Edsiyeement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/kill-mockingbird-and-scottsboro-boys-trial-profile