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Morgan Hart, Kerrington Edmonds, & Cheyenne Starling
                   Mrs. Washington
                     Government
                          2nd
                   February 8,2013
Powell V. Alabama
Defendants'- Ozzie Powell, Willie Roberson, Andy Wright, and Olen
Montgomery.

Respondent- State of Alabama

Chief Lawyer for Defendants‘-Walter H. Pollack

Chief Lawyer for Respondents-Thomas E. Knight, Jr.
•   9 African American men hopped on a freight train heading through
    Alabama.

•   a group of white men also hopped on the train.

•   A fight broke out between the two groups

•   All but one of the white men were thrown off the train.

•   Two white girls claimed that the men wrapped them.
Happened- March 1931

Case was heard- October 10,1932
Where?



-Scottsboro, Alabama
Why?
The men really do what the women said
 they did.

The men were allowed chaos to talk to
 family
How of the case??
Majority opinion reversed and
 recommended the decisions of the
 Alabama Supreme Court holding that due
 process had been violated.
Opinions

The court said that the rights of the 14th amendment had
  been violated and that each person should be given a
                 separate but equal trial.

The community along with everyone else thought of the
          actions unreasonable and unfair.
http://www.casebriefs.com

http://www.infoplease.com/us/supreme-
  court/cases/ar30.html

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