DECATUR, Ala. (TENNESSEE VALLEY LIVING) - In 1931, the lives of nine Black teenage boys looking for better work opportunities were tragically flipped upside down after a fateful encounter on a freight ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (WHNT) — In 1931, Jackson County Sheriff Matt Wann stood in front of the jail as a large lynch mob demanded that ...

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SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (WAFF) - Juneteenth celebrations and events were in full swing Thursday in the Tennessee Valley, and one event was held where a major key catalyst to the civil rights movement is ...

The Scottsboro Boys tells the true story of nine young black men, aged between 12 and 19, travelling on a train through Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931 in search of a new life. By the end of their journey ...

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The City of Huntsville donated a bit of history to an important local museum Thursday night. The city approved donating a historic North American Railway boxcar to the ...

The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles granted posthumous pardons to three of the famous "Scottsboro Boys" on Thursday. Haywood Patterson, Charlie Weems and Andy Wright are the last of the nine ...

Meanwhile, the white boys, who supposedly had been forced from the train, notified the station mas­ter. The nine young Black men who remained on the train were seized by an armed posse at Paint Rock, ...

The trial of nine black teens accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931 sparked an epic legal battle that led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling and a provocative Broadway musical. Actor ...