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Clarence “Willie” Norris, One Of The “Scottsboro Boys” Is Pardoned By Gov. George Wallace , October 25, 1976

The “Scottsboro Boys” case involved nine African-American teenage boys who were falsely accused of ra**ng two White women in rural Alabama back in 1931. Eight of the boys were charged and sentenced to death, setting off a firestorm of protests and ongoing legal battles that lasted for years. The odds were stacked against the boys, who had to face an all-White jury, a lynching attempt, angry mobs, and other injustices. With the help of the American Communist Party, the case was appealed. One of the first boys to be tried, Clarence “Willie” Norris (pictured below), was pardoned by Gov. George Wallace in 1976 – but not before the case shattered the lives of the group completely.

The Scottsboro Boys literally had no hope, even with the falsified claims. Racism in the South was the reality they faced, and many Whites in the state were possessed with a bloodthirsty focus to punish the boys either way. After a third trial in the lower courts, charges were dropped for four of the defendants with sentences for the rest ranging between 75 years to capital punishment. Just two of the boys served time in prison, with two of the group escaping and later returning to jail after committing crimes. Norris, the oldest of the boys and the only one sentenced to death, was paroled in 1944 and moved to New York.

The move was a violation of his parole, and thus, he was sent back to prison. Paroled a second time in 1946, he made his return to New York and didn’t fare well in the job market until he reached out to his former lawyerSamuel Leibowitz who represented him and the rest of the Scottsboro teens.

He finally was able to get a job with his attorney’s help and eventually reached out to the NAACP to see if he would be able to obtain a pardon. With the NAACP’s help — by way of an aggressive campaign — the infamously racist George Wallace granted Norris a pardon in 1976.

Source:
http://narmersplace.blogspot.com/2012/10/last-of-surviving-scottsboro-boys.html
(Accessed on 10/25/2015)

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