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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Alabama granted posthumous pardons on Thursday to three of the Scottsboro Boys, a group of black teenagers whose fight against false charges that they raped two white women in 1931 helped initiate the modern civil rights movement.The action by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles clears the last of theScottsboro boys who had yet to be exonerated: Charles Weems, Andy Wright andHaywood Patterson. The three were among nine youths accused of gang-raping two women aboard a freight train in Alabama and convicted by all-white juries in the town of Scottsboro.
The group's legal journey to fight the convictions and win new trials sparked protests over racial injustice and two landmark rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Today, we were able to undo a black eye that has been held over Alabama for many years," said Eddie Cook, the board's assistant executive director.
Read more @: [/FONT]Scottsboro Boys granted posthumous pardon in 1931 Ala. rape case - CBS News
Finally some good new that has come out of Alabama. [/FONT][/COLOR]
I agree it undoes nothing but its some good news.Good news .. but it undoes nothing.
Additionally, the civil rights movement was sparked by the murder of Emmitt Till.
Good news .. but it undoes nothing.
Additionally, the civil rights movement was sparked by the murder of Emmitt Till.
Read more @: [/FONT]Scottsboro Boys granted posthumous pardon in 1931 Ala. rape case - CBS News
Finally some good new that has come out of Alabama. [/FONT][/COLOR]
It was really started by the lynching of Ed Johnson, but in the end they are all just random names in history of no real importance.
How is a case from 1931 "Breaking News"??
Because they just now been granted posthumous pardon.
It was sarcasm...
Oh haha i gotcha. Hard to pick up on the interwebbzzzzz
I agree it undoes nothing but its some good news.
Just kinda adds some closure.
Civil rights movement could be said to go back all the way to Plessy v Ferguson
It was really started by the Plessy Decision...
How so since Plessy just reaffirmed what already existed? It wasn't until Johnson was lynched about a decade later that the first steps were taken to change the status quo.
True on both counts brother.
However, the final straw was Emmitt Till .. which led to the rise a of a minister from Atlanta named King.
It's a nice but ultimately symbolic and nearly worthless gesture.
My point was that it didn't have a "start time/date".
The fight for equal rights for blacks had been going on in some capacity for well over a hundred years before MLK and such. The Emancipation Proclamation. The 14th Amendment. Etc.
I agree after Emmitt Till thats when it took off started to get more and more press and started to become a larger and larger movement.
After hundreds of years of abuse and terrorism in the United States, the murder of Till is when we recognized that rights is America are not determined by what is just, fair, humane, civil .. or what Jesus would do. Rights in America are solely determined by what you can DEMAND. If you cannot demand them .. they are not your rights.
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