A historical recording of the protest song "Scottsboro Boys" by Lead Belly in the 1930s -- as captured by Smithsonian Folkways, the non-profit record label of the National Museum -- is often cited ...

to prosecutor Thomas Knight, on a proposed compromise, December 1936. Attorney Samuel Leibowitz with the Scottsboro boys, Courtesy: Morgan County Archives. When Haywood Patterson was found guilty ...

Now known as Katherine Queen Victory Street, she was suing NBC for slander and invasion of privacy for the broadcast of Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys, a television movie. She had married ...