What ended up being the fate of the Scottsboro Boys?

Answer 1

The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women on a train in 1931. Their trials are used as examples of the miscarriage of justice, particularly since all white juries were used. Even though there was evidence that they had not committed a crime and one of the women recanted her testimony, the jury convicted them. Several more iterations, with different judges in Alabama, took place. An appeal to the Supreme Court (Powell vs Alabama) ruled that African Americans had to be included on juries, and that the defendents rights had been disregarded and retrials were ordered. Charges were finally dropped for four of the nine defendants. Sentences for the rest ranged from 75 years to death.
Haywood Patterson was convicted of rape and sentenced to 75 yearsPatterson escaped from prison in 1948; he published The Scottsboro Boy in 1950. In 1951, he was convicted of assault and died of cancer in 1952. In 2013 the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles granted a posthumous pardon. Clarence Norris was convicted of rape and sexual assault and sentenced to death. In 1938, his sentence was commuted to life in prison. He was paroled in 1946. The Last of the Scottsboro Boys was published in 1979. Norris died on January 23, 1989. Andrew Wright was convicted of rape and sentenced to 99 years. After violating parole, he returned to prison until being released in 1950. In 2013 the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles granted a posthumous pardon. Charlie Weems was convicted of rape and sentenced to 105 years in prison. After twelve years in prison he was paroled in 1943. In 2013 the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles granted a posthumous pardon. Ozie Powell suffered permanent brain damage in a prison altercation; he pleaded guilty to assaulting a deputy and was sentenced to 20 years. The state dropped the rape charges as part of this plea bargain. Powell was released from prison in 1946. In 1937, the state of Alabama dropped all charges against Willie Roberson, Olen Montgomery, Eugene Williams, and Roy Wright. The four had spent over six years in prison.