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4 unusual facts about Scottsboro Boys


Ellen Feldman

Scottsboro was a 2009 novel about the Scottsboro Boys, nine black youths controversially accused of rape.

Philip Guston

As an 18-year-old, politically aware painter, Guston made an indoor mural in L.A. - for the John Reed Club -, depicting the Scottsboro Boys.

Scottsboro

The Scottsboro Boys, involved in a racially charged legal case that made it to the United States Supreme Court

Scottsboro Boys

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about growing up in the Deep South in the 1930s.



see also

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

Subsequently, the train was stopped by an armed posse in the town of Paint Rock, Alabama, and two white women got out making an accusation that they had been raped by nine black teenagers, the Scottsboro Boys, on the train.

Thomas E. Knight

Knight was portrayed by actor Ken Kercheval in the 1976 TV movie Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys.