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Elkin, Michael
Jewish Exponent
03-22-2001
`Boys' Town: Saga of Scottsboro; A former Philadelphian trains his sights
on Oscar

From the hills of Alabama to the Hollywood hoopla of the Academy Awards has
proved an historic ride for the strife-ridden story of the Scottsboro Boys.

The boys, nine black teens, were hobos who illegally boarded a train in
Chattanooga, Tenn., 70 years ago this month. By the time the train steamed
into Paint Rock, Ala., they had been ticketed by two white women in the box
car as rapists.

That train ride was just the first leg of a journey in which the "boys"
were tripped up by ...

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