Who are the Scottsboro Nine?

The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women aboard a train near Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931. The trials and repeated retrials of the Scottsboro Boys sparked an international uproar and produced two landmark U.S. Supreme Court verdicts<br /><br />Audio <br />Onemichistory.com<br /><br /> Please support our Patreon:<br /> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914" rel="noopener">https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914</a><br /><br />Buy me a Coffee<br /><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m" rel="noopener">https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2m</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/scottsboro-boys" rel="noopener">https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/scottsboro-boys</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_Boys" rel="noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_Boys</a><br /><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/scottsboro-boys-who-were-the-boys/" rel="noopener">https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/scottsboro-boys-who-were-the-boys/</a><br /><a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/scottsboronine-black-youth-arrested-for-assault/" rel="noopener">https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/scottsboronine-black-youth-arrested-for-assault/</a><br /><a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Scottsboro-case" rel="noopener">https://www.britannica.com/event/Scottsboro-case</a><br /><a href="https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-tragedy-scottsboro-boys" rel="noopener">https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-tragedy-scottsboro-boys</a><br /><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/who-were-scottsboro-nine-180977193/" rel="noopener">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/who-were-scottsboro-nine-180977193/</a>