False accusation of rape
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A false accusation of rape happens when a person states that they or another person have been raped when no rape has occurred. The issue is studied in criminal law, criminology, sociology, and public
Joseph Accused by Potiphar's Wife by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1655
Scottsboro Boys
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The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American male teenagers accused of raping a young white woman and a 17-year-old white girl in 1931. The landmark set of legal cases from this incident dealt with
False accusation of rape
…people were killed, but as many as 150 black residents may have been killed. In 1931, a white woman and a 17-year-old white girl falsely accused the Scottsboro Boys, a group of nine African American boys and young men, of gang raping them on a train. They had boarded a train across state lines in hopes of finding…
The Scottsboro Boys in 1931. From left to right: Clarence Norris, Olen Montgomery, Andy Wright, Willie Roberson, Ozie Powell, Eugene Williams, Charlie Weems, Roy Wright, and Haywood Patterson.
Victoria Price (left) and Ruby Bates (right) in 1931
The crowd at Scottsboro in April 1931
Norris in 1931