• The Scottsboro Boys is a musical with a book by David Thompson, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. Based on the Scottsboro Boys trial, the musical...
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  • The Scottsboro Boys were nine African-American male teenagers accused of raping two white women in 1931. The landmark set of legal cases from this incident...
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    Haywood Patterson (category African-American history between emancipation and the civil rights movement)
    was one of the Scottsboro Boys. He was accused of raping Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. He wrote a book about his experience, Scottsboro Boy. Patterson...
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    the Broadway musical The Scottsboro Boys (2011), for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He reprised the role...
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  • Samuel Leibowitz (category Romanian emigrants to the United States)
    defense attorney. He was best known for representing the Scottsboro Boys, and later became a justice of the New York State Supreme Court. Samuel Simon Leibowitz...
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    Joshua Henry (category American male musical theatre actors)
    known for portraying Haywood Patterson in Kander and Ebb's 2010 musical The Scottsboro Boys, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. He has also received...
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    Brandon Victor Dixon (category American male musical theatre actors)
    originated the role of Haywood Patterson, in the Off-Broadway production of the musical The Scottsboro Boys, for which he was nominated for the Drama Desk...
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  • Company Savannah State University Scat singing School Daze Scottsboro Boys The Scottsboro Boys (musical) S-Curl Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture...
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  • 65th Tony Awards (category 2011 awards in the United States)
    and Best Book of a Musical. The musical The Scottsboro Boys was nominated for 12 awards winning none. Shows that opened during the 2010–11 Broadway season...
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  • Kander and Ebb (category American musical duos)
    a. The Skin of Our Teeth) (1999) Liza's Back (recording, wrote the title song: "Liza's Back") (2002) Curtains (2006) The Scottsboro Boys (2010) The Visit...
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