Haywood Patterson

male
ScottsboroBoys, 1930s in the United States, Local civil rights history
Haywood Patterson was one of the Scottsboro boys.

Samuel Leibowitz

male, deceased (1978)
Jewish, Jewish American, romanian, lawyer, Jewish person, American…ScottsboroBoys
Samuel Simon Leibowitz was an American criminal defense attorney, famously noted for winning the majority of his cases (139 out of 140 charged with...
Lead Belly

Lead Belly

male, deceased (1949)
"John Hardy", multi-instrumentalist, From Dallas, john hardy, American, Blues guitarist…ScottsboroBoys
Huddie William Ledbetter was an American folk and blues musician, notable for his clear and forceful singing, his virtuosity on the twelve string...
William Monroe Trotter

William Monroe Trotter

male, deceased (1934)
Harvard University, African-American, birth of a nation, phi beta kappa, newspaper, National Equal Rights League…ScottsboroBoys
William Monroe Trotter, William Monroe Trotter was born to James Trotter and Virginia Isaacs on April 7, 1872. William was born in Springfield...

Ned Cobb

male
Sharecropper Union, tenant farmer, Boll Weevil, Sharecropper, cotton, Civil rights activist…ScottsboroBoys
Ned Cobb was a tenant farmer was born in Tallapoosa County in Alabama. Cobb grew up with a father who had been a slave and had been emotionally and...
John Gates

John Gates

male, 96 years old
communist, newspaper circulation, Young Communist League, USA, ScottsboroBoys, Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Daily Worker
John Gates, born Solomon Regenstriet in New York City in 1913, was a prominent American Communist from 1939 to 1958. While a student at City...