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    The Scottsboro Boys: The case that helped spur the modern civil rights movement

    •November 21, 2013

    The Scottsboro Boys: The case that helped spur the modern civil rights movement

    Yahoo News
    November 21, 2013, 9:46 AM

    Alabama granted posthumous pardons on Thursday to three of the Scottsboro Boys, a group of black teenagers whose fight against false charges that they raped two white women in 1931 helped spur the modern civil rights movement.

    The three men exonerated by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles - Charles Weems, Andy Wright and Haywood Patterson - were among nine youths accused of gang-raping the two women aboard a freight train in Alabama, and convicted by all-white juries in the town of Scottsboro. (REUTERS)

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