in your view? guest: because i think it captures so many aspects of the case even when it was not written about. the forlorn and bewildered expression of the boys themselves, as they were called, their poverty, the mill tarrization of the militarization of the trial that surrounded them, the total ab jex of the scene itself. host: if they were arrested in paint rock, how did this become known as the scottsboro s boys case? guest: because scottsboro was the town in which the first trials were held. the boys were arrested on march 31st, 1931. within two weeks, all of the boys had been tried, eight of them had been convicted, eight of them had been sentenced to death. they all converged in scottsboro, alabama. host: within two weeks? guest: two weeks. host: all white jury? guest: all white jury that ultimately became the basis of one of the first supreme court decisions about the case. host: who defended them? guest: good question because in some respects,