The Scottsboro Boys were nine innocent African American teenage
boys who were tried and convicted of rape in Scottsboro, Alabama,
in 1931, in a terrible miscarriage of justice.
Tom Robinson represents the Scottsboro Boys because he gets
accused of the same thing and is also sentenced to death even
though he is innocent. He is only convicted because of his
color.
The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenage boys accused of rape
in Alabama in 1931.
The Scottsboro Boys, as they became known, at the time were
defended by many in the North and attacked by many in the
South.