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 spur the modern civil rights movement.
The three men exonerated by
the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles - Charles Weems, Andy Wright and
Haywood Patterson - were among nine youths accused of gang-raping the two women
aboard a freight train in Alabama, and convicted by all-white juries in the
town of Scottsboro.
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