3 men convicted in infamous ‘Scottsboro Boys’ case are pardoned by Alabama parole board
By EsqSocial Corporation 21/11/13
Closing a chapter in a criminal case that is considered symbolic of racial injustice in the early decades of the 20th Century, the Alabama parole board Thursday granted posthumous pardons to three black men who were convicted by all-white juries of a rape that apparently never occurred in a case…