Scottsboro Trial

The defense for Haywood Patterson, one of the men accused in the infamous Scottsboro Trials, displays a mock-up of the train on which the alleged crimes occurred during one of the trials in Decatur, Morgan County.

Defense exhibit miniature train set up in the Scottsboro Boys trial courtroom in Decatur, Alabama
Courtesy of the University of Alabama Libraries, A. S. Williams III Americana Collection
Defense exhibit miniature train set up in the Scottsboro Boys trial courtroom in Decatur, Alabama