• 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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    portraying Haywood Patterson in Kander and Ebb's 2010 musical The Scottsboro Boys, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • America, and Clybourne Park. She is best known for Company (2022) and Scottsboro Boys (2011). She was named the Broadway Global Producer of the Year in 2017...
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  • negro to live in Cullman in this state. Z. B. "No title". Scottsboro Progressive Age. Scottsboro, Alabama. Reprinted in "A Bit of Gossip About Things Away...
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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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  • 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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    Cândido Rondon explored the River of Dou…" (Tweet) – via Twitter. "The Scottsboro Boys, Mary Bridget Davies, Stephen Adly Guirgis Among L.A. Drama Critics...
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