News of the ___________________________ crime spread rapidly across the country.

The day of the arrests, the local newspaper ______________________________ the "revolting crime".

Many news outlets wanted to shine a light on the ______________________ unjust guilty verdicts to get support for the boys.

The supreme court ruled that the boys were denied the right to ______________________________ legal counsel and they would have the right to start new trials.

The retrial process was slow and ________________________ despite the overwhelming evidence of the boys' innocence.

Ruby Bates blamed the Scottsboro police for _________________________ her into accusing the boys of rape.

The case against the boys was _________________________ because the victim, Ruby Bates, testified that the whole story had been made up.

In an _______________________________ move, Judge James Horton reversed the jury's guilty verdict and was not re-elected for the next term.

The Supreme Court ruled that Alabama's jury selection process was inherently racially ___________________ because they excluded African Americans from serving.

In 2013, the Alabama Board of Pardon's and Paroles granted _________________________________ pardons to three of the Scottsboro Boys who never had their convictions overturned: Charlie Weems, Andrew Wright, and Haywood Patterson.

The Scottsboro Boys ____________________________ media attention for many years and was one of the earliest signs of the need for racial injustice.

The NAACP and the Communist Party USA ________________________ on the Scottsboro Boys' cases to win support for their causes.