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Nine African American teenagers were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train in Alabama in 1931. The teenagers were quickly tried and unjustly convicted, receiving death sentences. A family member of one of the Scottsboro Boys writes a letter to the presiding judge, pleading for the conviction to be overturned due to lack of evidence and clear racial biases during the unfair trial that resulted in an unjust death sentence for their innocent brother.
Nine African American teenagers were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train in Alabama in 1931. The teenagers were quickly tried and unjustly convicted, receiving death sentences. A family member of one of the Scottsboro Boys writes a letter to the presiding judge, pleading for the conviction to be overturned due to lack of evidence and clear racial biases during the unfair trial that resulted in an unjust death sentence for their innocent brother.
Nine African American teenagers were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train in Alabama in 1931. The teenagers were quickly tried and unjustly convicted, receiving death sentences. A family member of one of the Scottsboro Boys writes a letter to the presiding judge, pleading for the conviction to be overturned due to lack of evidence and clear racial biases during the unfair trial that resulted in an unjust death sentence for their innocent brother.
the Scottsboro Boys. Your brother has just been sentenced to death but Judge Horton is deliberating whether to accept or overturn the conviction. Write the Judge a letter trying to persuade him to overturn the conviction. Be persuasive, include evidence of why you believe the trial