Exonerating the Scottsboro Boys

Sara Kugler, @sarakug Updated February 22, 2013 Click here to open the gallery. All photographs courtesy of the Morgan County Archives, Decatur, Alabama. The photographs may not be reused without the written permission of the Morgan County Archives. Carol Puckett was doing research in the Morgan County Archives in Decatur, Alabama when she came across 127 photographs from inside the courtroom of one of the most famous legal trials in Alabama history. The photos were from the retrial of Haywood Patterson, one of the nine Scottsboro Boys falsely accused and arrested for the alleged rape of two white women in 1931. Most of the widely circulated photos from the Scottsboro Boys’ trials are from staged events, but the collection Puckett …

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