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Why did the train stop in Scottsboro, Alabama?

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There were nine African american teenagers that was falsely accused of raping two white woman on a train

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On the morning of March 25, 1931, nine young black men rode illegally in the back of a freight train chugging across Alabama. ... The train had to stop in Scottsboro, Alabama to end the fight, and the white men went to the local authorities to accuse the black youths of assault

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