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March 25th

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  1. 1931
    The Record

    Scottsboro Boys arrested

    Nine Black teenagers aged thirteen to twenty are pulled from a Southern Railroad freight train in Paint Rock, Alabama, and charged with the rape of two white women. Two weeks later an all-white jury sentences eight to death. Their appeals produce Powell v. Alabama in 1932 and Norris v. Alabama in 1935, two foundational rulings on the right to counsel and jury composition.

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