In 1931, two white women stepped from a box car in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. The trial of the nine falsely accused teens would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the Civil Rights Movement. In addition...

Presents the story of the infamous 1931 trial of nine black youths in Scottsboro, Alabama, who were falsely accused of rape. The trial would yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give birth to the civil rights movement.