"Ala. pardons last 3 Scottsboro Boys" by Alan Blinder | New York Times, November 22, 2013
ATLANTA — The state of Alabama posthumously pardoned three black men on Thursday who had been falsely convicted more than 80 years ago in the rapes of two white women, absolving the last of the so-called Scottsboro Boys....
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The case, which yielded two landmark Supreme Court rulings about the inclusion of blacks on juries and the need for adequate legal representation, continued to hang over Alabama as an enduring mark of its segregationist past. The last of the men died in 1989....
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