The Scottsboro Boys January 29, 2011

Kander and Ebb's final collaboration, 'The Scottsboro Boys,' is based on the true story of the infamous 1930s Scottsboro case, in which a group of nine innocent African American teenagers was falsely accused of a terrible crime against white women in Alabama. After a series of trials, including a case that made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Scottsboro events ultimately provoked a national outrage that helped to spark the Civil Rights movement.