American Experience Scottsboro Boys: An

American Tragedy Part 1

Write your answers on a separate
sheet of paper.
1. Who was riding the train?
2. What started the fight on the train?
Who won?
3. What do the two young women accuse
the men of doing?
4. Why were crowds forming outside of
the jail?
5. In what state and during what time
period do the events of the documentary
take place?
6. What is the sentence (punishment)
decided on in the trial for the Scottsboro
boys?
7. What are some ways in which the trial
was unfair?

8. Who ends up helping the Scottsboro

Boys?
9. Why did the Supreme Court decide the
Scottsboro Boys deserved a new trial?
10. What did all of the jurors in both trials
have in common?