The Scottsboro Boys: A Miscarriage of Justice in the US - a podcast by BBC World Service
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In 1931, nine black teenagers were convicted of raping two white girls in the southern US state of Alabama.
Eight were sentenced to death by an all-white jury; but after years of campaigning, all eventually went free.We hear from the daughter of Clarence Norris, one of the accused.
Picture: Police escort two recently freed "Scottsboro Boys" New York, 1937, Credit: Associated Press
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