The alleged headstone of Leroy Wright, the youngest of the "Scottsboro Boys," leans heavily toward a semi-sunken grave at Pleasant Garden Cemetery in Chattanooga. The historically black cemetery has been seemingly neglected for decades, despite the occasional surge of community interest. David Young, a resident of the Ridgeside community whose home backs onto the cemetery property, has been fighting the underbrush and rampant foliage growth for three decades.
Photo by
Jake Daniels .
published Monday, February 4th, 2013
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In 1931, Alabama wanted to execute the black Scottsboro Boys because two white women claimed they were gang-raped.







