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Events on Wednesday 25 March 1931 1
1931Scottsboro Boys arrestedNine Black teenagers are falsely accused of rape in AlabamaNine Black youths were taken off a freight train near Paint Rock, Alabama, and accused of raping two white women. All but the youngest were quickly sentenced to death by all-white juries. The case became a landmark of the American civil rights struggle and produced two major Supreme Court rulings.