{"id":89312,"date":"2021-12-29T17:36:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T17:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=89312"},"modified":"2021-12-29T17:36:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T17:36:44","slug":"90-years-on-remembering-the-scottsboro-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=89312","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;90 years on: Remembering the Scottsboro Boys&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alreporter.com\/2021\/12\/29\/90-years-on-remembering-the-scottsboro-boys\/\" target=\"_blank\">AL Political Reporter: <\/a>&#8220;In 1931, a train ride in search of work during the height of the Depression nearly ended the lives of nine Black teenage boys \u2014 Clarence Norris, Jr., Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell, Andrew Wright, Leroy Wright, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Haywood Patterson and Eugene Williams \u2014 who were falsely accused of rape by two white women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The young men endured courtroom trials, convictions, retrials and incarceration, collectively spending 130 years in Alabama\u2019s jails and prisons for a crime they did not commit. Referred to by their supporters as the \u201cScottsboro Boys\u201d because of where the first trial took place, for years they lived on Alabama\u2019s death row where they could hear the buzz of the electric current as it coursed through the bodies of people being executed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrom the get-go, they never had a chance,\u201d said Larry Dane Brimner, author of\u00a0<em>ACCUSED!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL Political Reporter: &#8220;In 1931, a train ride in search of work during the height of the Depression nearly ended the lives of nine Black teenage boys \u2014 Clarence Norris, Jr., Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell, Andrew Wright, Leroy Wright, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Haywood Patterson and Eugene Williams \u2014 who were falsely accused of rape&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89313,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89312\/revisions\/89313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}