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.

Defendants seated at a table during the Scottsboro Boys trial, with model train cars displayed in the foreground and spectators filling the courtroom behind them.
Courtesy of the University of Alabama Libraries, A. S. Williams III Americana Collection

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Scottsboro Trials

Scottsboro Trials

State Courts of Alabama

State Courts of Alabama

Defendants seated at a table during the Scottsboro Boys trial, with model train cars displayed in the foreground and spectators filling the courtroom behind them.

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