Clarence Willi Norris, the last surviving member of the Scottsboro Boys, died at age 76 while a patient at Bronx Community Hospital. Norris was one of nine African American teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. The Scottsboro case became a symbol of racial injustice in the American legal system, with numerous trials and retrials between 1931 and 1937. Norris was eventually pardoned in 1976.
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