Primary Sources: Civil Rights in America - Events: Scottsboro (1931)

Provides access to various sources related to the trial.

"Digitized copies of briefs, motions and other trial documents concerning the Scottsboro Trials"

"LeMaistre remembers the Scottsboro case, when a number of young black men faced accusations of rape from two white women. Despite the judge's efforts to enforce fairness, "the jury already had its mind made up" about the defendants' guilt. (They convicted the men and sentenced them to death, although none of them were executed.)"