NNQueen
02-05-2004, 04:56 PM
“Scottsboro Boys” charged with raping two white women The Associated Press -- Updated: 11:41 a.m. ET Jan. 14, 2004
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. -
"An Alabama town plans to erect a memorial to nine black teenagers who were charged with raping two white women in 1931 in a case that came to symbolize racial injustice in Southern courts. City and county leaders will gather Jan. 25 to place a historical marker to the “Scottsboro Boys” near the Jackson County Courthouse in northern Alabama, the first official acknowledgment by the town of the controversy surrounding the case."
Read the entire story at:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3949307/
Peace,
Queenie :spinstar:
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. -
"An Alabama town plans to erect a memorial to nine black teenagers who were charged with raping two white women in 1931 in a case that came to symbolize racial injustice in Southern courts. City and county leaders will gather Jan. 25 to place a historical marker to the “Scottsboro Boys” near the Jackson County Courthouse in northern Alabama, the first official acknowledgment by the town of the controversy surrounding the case."
Read the entire story at:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3949307/
Peace,
Queenie :spinstar: