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Jackson County Court House and the Scottsboro Boys (back) AL37

Picture Courtesy of Jimmy Emerson

The United States Supreme Court overturned the verdicts and new trials were held in Decatur, Alabama. After a series of trials, convictions and overturned decisions, a compromise was reached in 1938, with some of the "Scottsbor Boys" freed immediately and the others release by 1950. In 1976, Governor George C. Wallace pardones the last living "Scottsboro Boy". Two landmark United States Supreme Court decisions arose directly from the case. In "Patterson vs. Alabama" (1932), the United States Supreme Court ruled the defendants were denied the right to effective legal counsel, and in "Norris vs. Alabama" (1935), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the defendants had not received equal protection under the law because Jackson County juror rolls excluded African Americans. Many consider the Scottsboro case and its aftermath one of the beginnings of the civil rights movement in America.

Jackson County Historical Association and the Alabama State Bar--2003

Jackson County Court House--Scottsboro Jackson County Alabama


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