scottsboro_boys

scottsboro_boys

Eight of the nine “Scottsboro boys” in 1936: (from left to right) Ozie Powell, Olen Montgomery, William Roberson, Charles Weems, Clarence Norris, Haywood Patterson, Laura Kellum, Andrew Wright, Eugene Williams. Leroy Wright is not pictured. Also pictured: Juanita Jackson Mitchell (lawyer and activist of the NAACP, fourth from the left), Laura Kellum (third from the right), and Ernest W. Taggart (far right). Image source: Britton & Patterson via Wikimedia Commons.