The Scottsboro Boys 

I've gotta quit watching stuff like this, I get too heated.

I don’t care how old this is them lady’s need to do time

This is such a sad story. All the people who were involved in this injustice should have been punished. As much as things have changed, the more they stay the same. Racism still exists!!!

I love this woman. Once I complete my undergraduate I plan on coming to Emory to study with this woman. She’s incredible

Stay Blessed Y'all. Our Time Is Now. Stand and Be Counted.

"So one attorney is senile looking for butterflies and the other attorney is drunk and seeing butterflies. " Well put.

I love this woman's intelligence and explanation. Thank you for opening my eyes even more to the messed up injustice black people face daily.

How many Black men and Women are in their graves because of false allegations like this. #America

This is history. It needs to be taught to every age appropriate students (middle school age) in our country. I’m a white man and lifelong citizen of Georgia. I’m always digging up history about Georgia. I want to know everything. The good and the bad. No hiding it. It’s part of the fabric woven in to our history. Don’t pull it out. Leave it there for those in the future to learn from. Professor Anderson told a truly riveting account. I could listen to her speak for hours.

*This woman has the narrative ability to captivate.*

These women and the lady responsible for Emmett Till's death are the same evil.

I don't know why cases like this are not mandatory learning in every HS civics class.

This system cannot fail those it was never DESIGNED to protect!

I would have passed every class had it been taught by this woman. She’s an incredible story teller

The things my ancestors endured. 😔. It’s a wonder we still exist.

This makes my blood boil.

So many untold events and so much unjust!

I absolutely love the way her voice sounds

I'm in tears. Can you imagine this is your sons going through this?

Why can't these women that lie about rape allegations serve jail ???

You can’t tell me there are no such thing as demons.

Karen's have been around for centuries smh

This is sad. Things have not changed since the 1930s. My heart and prayers go for the families of these teenagers.

This still happens today, June 23, 2022, but society calls them Karen’s 🙄🤷🏽‍♀️

This woman, Professor Anderson, does a fantastic job of summarizing this story. I will be able to present this to my class (who is currently reading TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD). Thank you.

This makes me want to puke, I was 14yrs old when I first studied this and felt that same feeling in my stomach then too. Protecting yourself from maybe a year of jail time by destroying multiple ppls lives with life in prison or death makes you worse than evil.

It’s so hard to watch this without having anger. Especially having racist neighbors

And after that Central Park 5 the cycle is so sad

Same thing happened to 4 boys in Groveland, Florida. Look it up. It happened around 1940. We have a serious issue in the government system as a whole. People who were brought up to hate. You’re not born that way, it’s taught. Just because someone skin is different. Just because someone’s hair texture is different. Just because someone speaks a different language. This country will always be divided for those reasons. A nation divided, will always suffer and it will fall.

Martinsville Seven, The Scottsboro Boys, & Central Park 5 are some of the most egregious acts the judicial system has allowed to happen in this country. THIS is reality, OUR REALITY & it’s sadly still happening today. 😓

I love how she broke down this story. Would have love her to have been my teacher or professor

THIS is History that should be taught in our high schools! If more teachers taught like this woman, history class would be a favorite 💕

She tells stories with such dedication and passion. You almost feel like you’re there witnessing it unfold. Sounds like the Central Park 5

This professor is a very dynamic speaker! I would love to take her class!

She has a way of telling a story.The things we went through 😭

These states that are mentioned, are still the same way in this day an time.

Nothing has changed in America. There is still injustice.

The least we can do for these innocent young boys is to make their voices heard and their stories known. I encourage anyone and everyone to share this on their social media. Doesn't matter if it's and "old" case. When you think about it, the case isn't THAT old. It's been 81 years since this happened. Which makes it so much more disturbing.

I just watched this and I'm still crying over it. I literally feel sick to my stomach. God bless these young men 🙏

Makes me sick to my stomach...

I applaud this woman. She taught us about a complex broken unrightoues evil event in under 8 min and made us completely understand the Huge unspeakable tragedy that American history tried to hide. GREAT JOB

Her story telling skills are fantastic

I learned of the Scottsboro Boys in college in my defense class. I still have the book in my library. Totally Unjust and downright horrendous!! To many cases of wrongly convicted people of color in prison.

I told my son "If she can't use your comb, don't bring her home." !!!

Sounds alot like the CENTRAL PARK 5 to me. In another 10 years itll happen again with the same result...no justice.

Very unfortunate that they had to serve anytime at all, but very fortunate that justice prevailed in the end and the good lord assisted. 🙏

This what Trump really meant about Make America Great Again.

We are still here. Same injustice, different times. Nothing has ever changed.

This lady is my dream teacher I used to love history too loving the energy in the story telling

And yet, black men still love white women.

America is still the same to this day.

You wonder why all these women call the police on black men making false allegations.

Alabama,Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas and Oklahoma. These states should be giving every living Afro-American who lived during the Jim Crow Era reparation. What these poor people had to endure was outright appalling. These people were civil rights heroes. Some of the name you may never hear about,but there presence thru all that adversity have to applauded.The Scottsboro boys is part of black history many of our young generation do not know about.So when you come across an elderly Afro-American and they said they grew up and lived thru Jim Crow be kindly and give them a hug and a thanks. They made it easy for you.

Was taught this story in 10th grade. It never left me.

I'm in Zambia, Southern Africa. Everytime I listen to these racist incidences in USA I can't understand how seemingly well educated African Americans can even suggest there is no reason to pay reparations to black people - never mind slavery, but just the violent racism that has been going on for centuries!!

Wow I’m glad RU-vid recommended this 😯 I’ve never heard this story before.

You did a great job telling the story.

I experienced a similar situation in 2013 and 2015. There was witnesses and video evidence that proved my innocence. The police never documented the witnesses and altered the video evidence. The only reason I’m out is because I acted as my own attorney. America was never great!

I love how she explains history. I wish she was one of my professors when I was in college.

12years old?sick

You are an excellent story teller. This is a tragic, horrific story. Thou shalt not lie. Love one another. Human beings fail all too often. God bless these young men. Thank you for sharing. Racism is so juvenile and evil....we must protect ourselves from being programmed to hate anyone....

My paternal grandfather, who was a very handsome young man and was allowed to work at wealthy plantation homes in Mississippi where he was hit on quite often by the wives and daughters of the rich white men. The darker black men worked the fields, but he was allowed to drive, have a house keys, do invoicing, deposits, and was like the property foreman. At 19, a daughter had him drive her into town and she was wearing extremely skimpy shorts, sandals and a halter top. Yes - women in those days dress like that in the summer. She told him to pull over and tried to kiss him and make him touch her and have sex with her. He said his blood ran cold when she told him that she would threaten to accuse him of raping her if he refused her advances. Luckily, he pleaded to her telling her that she was essentially giving him a death sentence and that he had a loving wife at home and a baby girl who was only a few weeks old. He pulled out her photograph and talked about his family and why he was hired at such a young age to work these expensive homes because of his talents and how he was an asset and could do so much to help her family. He begged her not to do it. She became angry and bitter and made things hard for him with her complaining and punishing him for rejecting her. He quit within a year, got a big plantation restoration job at a famous author’s home, then opened his own business contracting for a new hotel chain.

off topic: this woman is an incredible story teller. i would learn so much from her if she told MORE black stories. if she was a historian teacher in school i bet every student would be awake in that class lol. thanks for this information 👍🏿

I am VERY protective of my four children (ages 12, 16, 18 and, 20). Even though my wife and I are sometimes ridiculed as "helicopter parents", I think that Black parents HAVE to be MORE vigilant given the historic AND present-day hostility towards Black boys and men (even by other Blacks). This reminds me of the "Central Park Five" during the late 80s. 😔😡💔 May God guide us!🙏🏾

This is another example of those who have an advantage of ppl and the evil that’s in them . So many examples of situations like this . If ppl think the very same government/ system that wasn’t designed for our benefit will be just is delusional. This is an evil country/ world 🌎 so much wrong has been done and it can never be fully corrected

Lies, lies and lies...ruining innocent lives. So cruel.

May the Almighty's judgment be fitting for all the evil done to his people. 🙏🏽😭

Hmmm... sounds alittle like Central park 5 🤔😐

I never took time to learn! However the older I get with a granddaughter the more I crave knowledge not for myself but for my family to do better and know better! It is hard to hear but it is so important to understand my history to make better decisions for my family and the world! How can you do better if you don't know any better! I hurt because my lack of confidence in knowledge and wisdom... I'm starting to become free in my own skin therefore my grandbaby will never be locked up mentally! Thanks to people like this! WOWZER hard pills to swallow.. life

you can say they told a white-lie

Miss Anderson talks and explain so well i was carried away listing to her. What a story she tell us! Felt so bad for those guys. Bless them

omg Im disgusted those poor fellas

Simply incredible so much unbelievable Injustice to so many folks just by the color of their skin and for that to still go on today is not only a huge eye opener it needs a huge check mark here in American history

She’s an amazing speaker 💖

Carol Anderson, Associate Professor of African American Studies, definitely has a narrative talented ability to captivate an audience. For example, she told the story about the “Scottsboro Boys” with such detaitled and articulate enough to keep the audience focusing on the materials facts of the circumstances of the injustice of the Scottsboro Boys. She kept my focus on what she wanted me to get out of the story. Prayers for the families and the surviving defendant(s). Thanks for sharing! 👍🏾

Thank you for posting this video. I did my college term paper on this case. The Scottsboro 9 didn't even all know one another. The church my father grew up in Mt. Shelby Baptist Church Marvell, Arkansas use to take up an offering every week for their defense.

The sad part OUR BROWN MEN STILL LUST THESE 🐍 DEVIL'S 👿!

Thank you for the education.

Almost every day now, I learn of another episode of American history - that at one time was hidden from sight. A history that clarifies the unending and unbearable suffering of the Blacks - the only immigrants ever forced to come to this country. The knowledge and increasing awareness of what they suffered is both difficult and painful to realize, and yet, never fails to make one's heart ache. We can be so cruel to one another. I am glad that the Black protests are only seeking justice - for they also have every reasonable justification to seek revenge. But they won't, since they know it far beneath the dignity they have always possessed, though it has not always been acknowledged. I cheer them on, and I actively join in their well-deserved and ever-approaching equality. Thank you for posting this!!

This story inspired to kill a mockingbird

Something is seriously evil and unhinged with those racist people, smh, it like the get a thrill out of seeing black people suffer and murdered, the spilling of black blood is the ultimate high to them it seems.

Hate to hear stories like this with a sound mind, because it angers me to the core.

2020 the whole world is now fighting for injustice she should make more interviews.

Deuteronomy 28:15, 49, 68, 32 This is talking about the children of Israel which are called (in these days) African Americans. But the bible says they will wake up and remember themselves and keep the commandments of God to which he will save them from there enemies.

Omg I could listen to this woman teach me anything all day. Do y'all still have teachers like her? If you do we will be planning a campus tour for my oldest.

One looking for butterflies and the other seeing butterflies 🦋🦋🦋 Love the way she tells stories

THATS WHAT THE DEVIL CHILDREN DO...LIE...LIE.LIE...

Whoa, it really makes my blood boil hearing this but I'm glad to learn of it. Blacks in Africa and Europe suffered the same atrocities simultaneously...SMH. Thank you for sharing this story because it really opens my eyes to how NOTHING has changed where we're regarded and it's nearly 2020

Love the way she brought this to life

Scottboro has never been corrected, and I never hear NObody talking about what happen to those young Black men,,

I’m reading comments from black women saying “black men keep marrying these white women” but there’s plenty of black women who married white men, so can y’all stop?? Just watch the video.

This had to be terrifying for those children ....breaks my heart how many evil injustices that have transpired to many minorities and still continues to transpire to this very day!

She is incredible! What an amazing story teller and that passion she shows is just so infections!!! Yet another horrific injustice for our fellow black lives. It's sickening. Just boys being black looking for work😞

Here we are late into 2019 going into 2020 and nothing has changed... *R.I.P. Micah Xavier Johnson *The Dallas Police Nat Turner*

Hard story told so brilliant!

Professor Anderson explains it so eloquently in 7 minutes.

This woman had the grace and the knowledge of telling this horrendous yet interesting story of the 9 boys.

This is just one of thousands of these stories..

She is a superb storyteller...Excellent delivery not to mention her passion for truth and intelligence... preach on my beautiful black sister !!!

When I hear things like this what keeps me from getting mad 😡 is the fact that I know everyone who uses "unjust scales" ⚖ [abusing the law], still has to answer to one more judge who doesn't need any trial at all 🗃💼 and will hold crooked people accountable for eternity. 🔥