The Scottsboro case was a major U.S. civil rights controversy in the 1930s involving nine Black youths who were falsely accused of raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. The case was the subject of national outcry and three Supreme Court decisions on the issues of providing the accused with an adequate defense and intentionally excluding Black jurors from the case. In the end the nine “Scottsboro Boys” spent more than 100 years in prison collectively.
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