Tourism - City of Scottsboro (2024)

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What's in Scottsboro? ›

Scottsboro's founder, Robert Thomas Scott, served in the Alabama Legislature for almost 20 years and later ran a hotel in Bellefonte. Since he and his wife, Elizabeth, wanted a place to call their own and were not very fond of Bellefonte, they moved to Scottsboro around 1850–53.

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Collectively, the "Scottsboro Boys" spent a total of 130 years in Alabama jails and prisons for a crime they did not commit. Over the ensuing decades, each of the eight teens—now men—was released from prison, but that false rape accusation effectively derailed their lives. Some returned to prison.

Clarence Norris died in Bronx Community Hospital on Janurary 23, 1989 at the age of seventy-six. He was, as the title of a book he helped write suggested, the last of the Scottsboro Boys. Norris was the second of eleven children born to Georgia sharecroppers.

The community gained national attention in 1931 as the scene of the famous Scottsboro case, a trial at which nine African American youths were convicted of raping two white women on a train.

The 5 largest ethnic groups in Scottsboro, AL are White (Non-Hispanic) (88.8%), Two+ (Non-Hispanic) (3.5%), Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (3.25%), Other (Hispanic) (1.69%), and White (Hispanic) (0.967%).

Charles Weems

Charles (Charlie) was the oldest of the Scottsboro boys. His mother died when he was four, and six of his seven siblings did not survive to adulthood.

The shopping center, along with the Publix, is also planned to feature Pet Depot, Tidal Wave Car Wash. White Development is also in final negotiations with Bancorp South and TJ Maxx, though not officially signed yet.

Is Scottsboro a small town? ›

Scottsboro is a small city in Northeastern Alabama. Right at the tail end of the Appalachian mountains and next to the Tennessee River and Lake Guntersville.

Haywood Patterson, Olen Montgomery, Clarence Norris, Willie Roberson, Andy Wright, Ozzie Powell, Eugene Williams, Charley Weems and Roy Wright were searching for work when a racially-charged fight broke out between passengers.

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Scottsboro | Jackson County, AL.

The town is named after its founder, Robert T. Scott, who migrated from North Carolina and in 1856 established a rail station on his land in Jackson County. Originally named Scottsville, the town's name was changed to Scott's Mill and then in 1858 to Scottsboro.

On March 25, 1931, nine African American teenagers were accused of raping two white women aboard a Southern Railroad freight train in northern Alabama.

The case of nine young African American men accused of the rape of two white women in the town of Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931, was a milestone in the emergence of a national civil rights movement.

The Scottboro Boys, which opens at The Young Vic tomorrow, is a musical based on the true story of a group of black teenagers wrongly accused of rape. Their case became a milestone in the history of US civil rights - but the daughter of one of the real Scottsboro Boys mainly recalls her father's private suffering.

The Scottsboro defendants were ultimately saved from execution, but they languished in prison for years. Even after being released, most never fully recovered from their ordeal. Their story has rightly been called 'an American tragedy.