The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American male teenagers accused of raping two white women in 1931. The landmark set of legal cases from this incident...
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The Scottsboro Boys is a musical with a book by David Thompson, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. Based on the Scottsboro Boys trial, the musical...
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the Scottsboro Boys case, which is one of the most important civil rights cases in the history of American jurisprudence. Prior to Scottsboro's founding...
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revival of Carousel and as Haywood Patterson in Kander and Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys, both of which earned him Tony Award nominations. He has also received...
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gained acclaim for his role as Mr. Bones in the Broadway musical The Scottsboro Boys (2011), for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured...
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Scottsboro may refer to: Scottsboro, Alabama, United States Scottsboro, Georgia, United States The Scottsboro Boys, involved in a racially charged legal...
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Brandon Victor Dixon (section The Scottsboro Boys)
London's West End, Dixon played the role of Hayward Patterson in The Scottsboro Boys and was nominated for a 2014 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor...
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was one of the Scottsboro Boys. He was accused of raping Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. He wrote a book about his experience, Scottsboro Boy. Patterson...
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Joseph R. Brodsky (section Scottsboro Boys Case)
Juridical Association (IJA), member of ILD defense team for members of the Scottsboro Boys Case of the 1930s, and general counsel for the International Workers...
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criminal defense attorney. He was best known for representing the Scottsboro Boys, and later became a justice of the New York State Supreme Court. Samuel...
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James Edwin Horton (section Scottsboro Boys re-trials)
of his career: the re-trials of the Scottsboro Boys. Judge Horton presided over the re-trials of the Scottsboro Boys. Both the prosecution and defense agreed...
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International Labor Defense (ILD), of the "Scottsboro Boys", nine black men arrested in 1931 in Scottsboro, Alabama after a fight with some white men...
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opposed to racial segregation after sponsoring the defense for the Scottsboro Boys in 1931. The party reached the apex of its influence in US politics...
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The Scottsboro Boys Museum is located at 428 West Willow Street in Scottsboro, Alabama, in the United States. Its focus is on the Scottsboro Boys case...
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leading the national pledge drive in support of the legal defense of the Scottsboro Boys, a group of nine young Black men falsely accused of raping two White...
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Best Original Score, and Best Book of a Musical. The musical The Scottsboro Boys was nominated for 12 awards winning none. Shows that opened during...
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Walter White (NAACP) (section Scottsboro Trial)
through Scottsboro, Alabama. Two white girls accused the nine black teenagers of rape. Locked in a cell awaiting trial, the "Scottsboro boys looked to...
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woke" as part of a spoken afterword to a 1938 recording of his song "Scottsboro Boys", which tells the story of nine black teenagers and young men falsely...
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the Scottsboro Boys, on the train. Despite the fact that no evidence was presented, the case was allowed to go to trial, and the Scottsboro Boys were...
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trial of the Scottsboro Boys, who were nine African-American teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women in 1931. The Scottsboro trial jury had...
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Scottsboro Boys (2010), a musical by Kander and Ebb about a notorious miscarriage of justice in the American South in the 1930s. The Scottsboro Boys was...
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Racial hoax (section Scottsboro Boys)
she had kissed two black boys on their cheeks while playing with them. Her mother became enraged and falsely accused the boys of molesting her daughter...
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Heavens Fall is a 2006 American film based on the Scottsboro Boys incident of 1931. In the film, two young white women (portrayed by Leelee Sobieski and...
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A Boy and His Soul Self Vineyard Theatre Also playwright 2010 The Scottsboro Boys Mr. Bones Guthrie Theater Broadway, Lyceum Theatre 2010, 2011 Chicago...
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received a Lucille Lortel Award in 2010. Later he was cast in The Scottsboro Boys by Susan Stroman, receiving nominations at the 65th Tony Awards for...
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Sweatt v. Painter (1950) (schooling) and Brown. In addition, the Scottsboro Boys cases led to a pair of 1935 rulings in Powell v. Alabama, and Norris...
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His first role came in the 1976 television film Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys, in which he co-starred as Haywood Patterson. He followed this up with...
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doctorate degrees from Niagara University, in Lewiston, New York. The Scottsboro Boys played on Broadway for a short time in 2010. The book was written by...
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The Music Man, Crazy for You, Contact, The Producers, The Frogs, The Scottsboro Boys, Bullets Over Broadway, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven...
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Humor". The New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2022. "Ragtime, The Scottsboro Boys, The Addams Family and Finian's Rainbow Top Nominations for 2010 Drama...
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