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The Montgomery Advertiser is a daily newspaper and news website located in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded in 1829.
Front page of the Montgomery Advertiser, July 19, 2009
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A U.S. soldier reading The Montgomery Advertiser in Italy, January, 1945
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
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…the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s, and became nationally prominent for its coverage and editorial stance. Hall later argued for release of the black Scottsboro Boys. Nonetheless, by the 1950s, the paper's coverage of the civil rights movement was "indifferent and antagonistic", often criticizing civil rights activists…
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