The Scottsboro Boys

The University Library invites you to view a Scottsboro Boys exhibit hightlighting items from the Judge James Horton Collection and a traveling exhibit of the Fred Hiroshige Photographs. The travelling exhibit is showing February 23-March 3, 2017.

The Scottsboro Boys were 9 teenage black men falsely accused of attacking two women on a train in March of 1931. Although there was no evidence of their guilt, outside of the testimony of the two women, the men were quickly arrested and found guilty of the crime. By the time appeals were made, the case had gained national attention. In 1933 the re-trial of Haywood Patterson, one of the Scottsboro boys, was transfered to Judge Horton’s circuit courtroom in Decatur, Alabama.