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Throughout the 1930s the Communist Party intensified its support of African Americans efforts to address unemployment and discrimination and to seek social justice . The communists' militant antiracism and determination to be interracial attracted some African Americans. The party expelled members who exhibited racial prejudice and gave black men key leadership positions James Ford, an African American ran as the party's vice presidential candidate in the election of 1932. Although few black men and women actually joined the Communist Party, some became increasingly sympathetic to left-wing ideas and prescriptions as the Depression wore on Many black workers were drawn to the Communist Party because it criticized the refusal of organized white labor to include them. The communists insisted that this anti Negro attitude of the reactionary labor leaders helps to split the ranks of labor, allows the employers to carry out their policy of divide and rule frustrates the efforts of the working class to emancipate itself from the yoke of capitalism, and dims the class-consciousness of the white workers as well as of the Negro workers ." Indeed , much of the push for racial equality within the CIO emanated from those connected with the party . The Scottsboro case brought the Communist Party the attention of African Americans It began when nine black youths who had caught a ride on a freight train in Alabama were tried convicted and sentenced to death for allegedly raping two white womenTheir ordeal started the night of March 25, 1931 when a group of young white hobos accosted therA fight broke out. The black youths threw the white youths off the train. The losers filed a complaint with the Scottsboro, Alabama , sheriff charging that black hoodlums had assaulted them. The sheriff ordered his deputies to round up every black person the train. The sweep netted the nine young black menOzie PowellClarence Norris, Charlie WeemsMontgomery, Willie Robertson, Haywood Patterson, Eugene Williams, Andy Wright, and Roy Wright. The police also discovered two young white women: 19-year-old Victoria Price and 17-year-old Ruby Bates Afraid of being arrested and perhaps ashamed of being hobos, Price and Bates falsely claimed that the nine black youths had sexually assaulted themOn the basis of that accusa. tion, the " Scottsboro Boys( ranging in age from 13 to 20) were given a hasty trial. They never had a chance. Their white court-appointed attorney came to court drunk each day. Three days after the trial started and 15 days after their arrest, the jurors found them all guilty. received the death sentence, and the youngest was sentenced to life imprisonment , even though medical examinations of Price and Bates proved that neither had been raped. While other organizations dawdled or refused to intervene, the Communist Party's International Labor Defense (ILD) rushed to help the "bovs" by appealing the conviction and death sentence to the Supreme Court. The case produced two important decisions that reaffirmed black people's right to the basic protections that all other American citizens enjoyed. In Powell . Alabama ( 1932), the Court ruled that the Scottsboro defendants had not been given adequate legal counsel and that the trial had taken place in a hostile and volatile atmosphere . Asserting that the youths right to due process as set forth in the Fourteenth Amendment had been violated , the Court ordered a new trial Alabama did as instructed, but the new trial resulted in another guilty verdict and sentences of death imprisonment. The OLD promptly appealed and in Norris uAlabama (1935) the Court decided that all Americans have the right to triał by a of their peers. The systematic exclusion of African Americans from the Scottsboro juries the Court held denied the defendants equal protection under the law, which the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed . Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes pointed out that no black citizens had served juries in the Alabama counties for decades , even though many were qualified to serve. The Court noted that the exclusion was blatant racial discrimination and called for yet another trial. Despite these stunning defeats and increasing evidence that the boys had been falsely convicted , Alabama still pursued the case . Even when Ruby Bates publicly admitted the rape charge had been a hoax , white Alabamians ignored her. Finally , in 1937 Alabama dropped its charges against five of the nine men , and in the 1940s the state released those still in fail Altogether , nine innocent black men had collectively served some three - quarters of a century in prison . Clarence Willie Norris however escaped and Michigan , returning decades later to receive a ceremonious pardon from Governor George Wallace .

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write one paragraph of Who were the Scottsboro Boys and what were they accused of?

(this is an African American history class)

Please no plagiarism, please no plagiarism please no plagiarism.

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Scottsboro boys were group of 9 teenagers who were African(black)American charged with false case of raping two white women in train in 1931. This case depicts the discrimination against black people as well as racism. They were travelling to the train, two white women were hiding cloths of white men's and when they were asked what they doing they impose false allegations of being raped by those 9 black teenagers.

They did it because they were doing sexual activities with white men and to hide this they impose false allegations on black teenagers. All boys were arrested except one youngest boy who was 13 years old. They were given death sentence by lower court. However, later when appeal was made against in supreme court, supreme Court overturned the original decision and declared that as per investigation it's been decided that they were charged with false case.