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Type in the content of your page here. //The Scottsboro Boys were a group of teenage African-Americans who were wrongly accused of gang raping two white girls in Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931. These young men were found guilty and sentenced to death or very long prison terms up to 100 years.

This is their story:

In the year of 1931 it was very common to catch free rides on trains from town to town to find jobs. On March 25, 1931 a group of people, both black and white, male and female boarded a train to Memphis. Soon enough a brawl broke out among the whites and blacks. The whites were out numbered and were soon forced off the train. Once they were off the train they went to the stationmaster to report that the blacks raped to white women on the train. The train was stopped in Scottsboro, Alabama and all nine of the African-Americans were arrested and brought to jail. They were charged with raping two white women whose names were Victoria Price and Ruby Bates.//