From the GadsenTimes.com:
MONTGOMERY — It began 81 years ago, with young black and white men and boys, a white woman and a girl on a train between Chattanooga and Paint Rock in Northeast Alabama.
Within days, eight of the nine young blacks would be convicted of raping the woman and girl and sentenced to death in Alabama’s electric chair. A 12-year-old black boy would be sentenced to life in prison.
Eventually no one was executed and all were released from prison, their lives ruined by the miscarriage of justice. In 1976, after decades of hiding, one of the nine, Clarence Norris, was pardoned by the state of Alabama.
Now, a north Alabama woman and a writer want final closure to the travesty known to history as the Scottsboro Boys Case, which awakened a nation to just how things were done in the Jim Crow system of the Deep South.
