The Scottsboro Boys

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:group_of_people
historical case
gptkbp:accusedOf gptkb:Ruby_Bates
gptkb:Victoria_Price
rape
gptkbp:arrested gptkb:Paint_Rock,_Alabama
1931
gptkbp:consistsOf nine African American teenagers
gptkbp:defendedIn gptkb:International_Labor_Defense
gptkb:Samuel_Leibowitz
gptkbp:event March 25, 1931
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Scottsboro Boys
gptkbp:imprisonedAt gptkb:Alabama
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:activist
gptkbp:legalIssue gptkb:Norris_v._Alabama
gptkb:Patterson_v._Alabama
gptkb:Powell_v._Alabama
gptkbp:location gptkb:Alabama
gptkbp:mediaCoverage national and international attention
gptkbp:notableFor highlighting racial prejudice in the legal system
impact on jury selection laws
impact on right to counsel
landmark Supreme Court decisions
gptkbp:notableMember gptkb:Charlie_Weems
gptkb:Clarence_Norris
gptkb:Haywood_Patterson
gptkb:Olen_Montgomery
gptkb:Ozie_Powell
gptkb:Roy_Wright
gptkb:Willie_Roberson
gptkb:Eugene_Williams
gptkb:Andy_Wright
gptkbp:pardonedBy gptkb:State_of_Alabama
gptkbp:pardonedIn 2013
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Communist_Party_USA
gptkb:Great_Depression
gptkb:Jim_Crow_laws
gptkb:NAACP
American legal history
gptkbp:subjectOf book 'Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South'
film 'Scottsboro: An American Tragedy'
musical 'The Scottsboro Boys'
numerous articles and books
gptkbp:symbol racial injustice
gptkbp:trialOutcome multiple convictions and retrials
some acquittals
some sentences commuted
some sentences overturned by Supreme Court
gptkbp:triedIn gptkb:Alabama
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Susan_Stroman
gptkb:John_Kander
gptkb:Off-Broadway,_New_York_City
gptkb:Signature_Theatre_(Virginia)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5