Lead Belly, a blues musician from Mooringsport, Louisiana, recorded a song called the “Scottsboro Boys,” dedicated to nine Black teenagers wrongfully accused of raping two White women on an Alabama freight train in the spring of 1931.
Lead Belly, a blues musician from Mooringsport, Louisiana, recorded a song called the “Scottsboro Boys,” dedicated to nine Black teenagers wrongfully accused of raping two White women on an Alabama freight train in the spring of 1931.