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	Podcast:		Witness: Witness Black History
	Episode:		The Scottsboro Boys: A Miscarriage of Justice in the US
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:08:53
	Publish Date:		2013-10-17 03:33:00
	Description:		In 1931, nine black teenagers were convicted of raping two white girls in the southern US state of Alabama. Eight were sentenced to death by an all-white jury; but after years of campaigning, all eventually went free. We hear from the daughter of Clarence Norris, one of the accused. Picture: Police escort two recently freed "Scottsboro Boys" New York, 1937, Credit: Associated Press
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