The Scottsboro Boys were Haywood Patterson, Olen Montgomery, Clarence Norris, Willie Roberson, Charles Weems, Andy Wright, Roy Wright, Ozie Powell, and Eugene Williams. They ranged in age from 12 to 19, at the time of their arrests in 1931 on charges that they raped two white women. They were convicted and collectively served more than 100 years in prison. Their case was the subject of three important Supreme Court rulings.
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