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Nine young black men were taken off the Southern Railway line in Paint Rock, Alabama, and arrested for throwing a group of white teens off the train further up the line. March 25, 1931
Image: Scottsboro Boys and Juanita Jackson Mitchell, 1936. (Public Domain) On this day in history, March 25, 1931, nine young black men were taken off the Southern Railway line in Paint Rock, Alabama, and arrested for throwing a group of white teens off the train further up the line. Two white women aboard the train,…