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
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
Samuel Leibowitz
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Samuel Simon Leibowitz was a Romanian-born American criminal defense attorney. He was best known for representing the Scottsboro Boys, and later became a justice of the New York State Supreme Court.
Scottsboro Boys
…Klan (KKK) territory. The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) maintained control over the defense of the case, retaining the New York criminal defense attorney Samuel Leibowitz. He had never lost a murder trial and was a registered Democrat, with no connection to the Communist Party. They kept Joseph Brodsky as the second chair…
Leibowitz photographed with the Scottsboro Boys in 1933