Charles Weems was one of the nine young men known as the "Scottsboro boys" who in 1931 was arrested on trumped up charges of raping two white women, and who with his eight co-defendants faced almost certain death in a racially divided south. He languished amid brutal conditions in prison for a crime of which he was totally innocent, surviving both a tear gas attack and a stabbing perpetrated by a prison foreman. His conviction, as would those of the other nine, would eventually be overturned, and Weems would eventually resume a quiet life, though his precise date of death is unknown.
Charles Weems was one of the nine young men known as the "Scottsboro boys" who in 1931 was arrested on trumped up charges of raping two white women, and who with his eight co-defendants faced almost certain death in a racially divided south. He languished amid brutal conditions in prison for a crime of which he was totally innocent, surviving both a tear gas attack and a stabbing perpetrated by a prison foreman. His conviction, as would those of the other nine, would eventually be overturned, and Weems would eventually resume a quiet life, though his precise date of death is unknown.
Advertisement
Advertisement
