Respondent's brief filed before the U.S. Supreme Court in response to the appeal for a retrial by the nine men convicted in the Scottsboro trial.
The nine "Scottsboro Boys" had ben falsely accused of raping two white women on a train that was stopped in Jackson County, Alabama, in 1931. The brief was filed by Attorney General Thomas E. Knight and Assistant Attorney General Thomas Seay Lawson on behalf of the state of Alabama.
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/22879 |
| Summary: | The nine "Scottsboro Boys" had ben falsely accused of raping two white women on a train that was stopped in Jackson County, Alabama, in 1931. The brief was filed by Attorney General Thomas E. Knight and Assistant Attorney General Thomas Seay Lawson on behalf of the state of Alabama. |
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