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2025 Annual Meeting Honors Award Recipients
... Frances D. Tate was presented the 2025 Decatur-Morgan County Chamber of Commerce’s Miss Athelyne C. Banks Citizen of the Year...
Apr 171 min read
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Woman fights for Decatur Scottsboro Boys Civil Rights Museum
From WAAY 31, February 12, 2025 At 82 years-old, Dorothy Gordon is not slowing down in her mission to shed light on a pivotal chapter in...
Mar 111 min read
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Decatur's Scottsboro Boys Civil Rights Museum: A project to educate, heal, and preserve history
From WAAY 31, February 12, 2025 In celebration of Black History Month, we take a deeper look into a historic project underway in Decatur...
Mar 111 min read
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Honoring the Legacy of the Scottsboro Boys: A mission to preserve Civil Rights history
From WAAY 31 ABC, 02/10/2025 WAAY 31 spoke with the woman who's leading the charge to preserve the history of the Scottsboro Boys,...
Mar 111 min read
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Scottsboro Boys Museum in Decatur depicts historic moments in civil rights history
From 256Today, DECATUR — In March 1931, nine Black youths traveled on a Southern Railway train from Memphis. Crossing into Alabama, a...
Oct 13, 20243 min read
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From the Decatur Daily: Historic move of Judge Horton house to continue Saturday
Oct. 7—In a move of historic proportions, the transport of Judge James Horton's home began Thursday and will continue into Decatur on...
Aug 8, 20241 min read
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Scottsboro Boys Museum Project
From BetterWorld.org : There are other Civil Rights Museums in Alabama. This one is for Decatur and North Alabama. Our activities in...
Aug 8, 20241 min read
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From SoulGrown - This new Alabama museum will honor one of the state’s most gripping historical Civil Rights stories
In March of 1931, nine Black youth traveled on a Southern Railway train headed for Memphis, Tennessee. Crossing into Alabama, a vicious...
Jul 29, 20241 min read
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Fox54 - Historic Horton House completes move, will be centerpiece of Scottsboro Boys Civil Rights Museum
The move is part of a plan to create a complex that will tell the Scottsboro Boys' story and create a new legal learning center. After a...
Jul 29, 20241 min read
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FOX 54 - Scottsboro Boys Revisited
Who were they? These are their names: Haywood Patterson Andy Wright Roy Wright Eugene Williams Olen Montgomery Ozie Powell William...
Jul 29, 20242 min read
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AL.COM - Scottsboro Boys to get museum in Decatur
Almost 100 years since being wrongly accused of rape, the nine African Americans known as the “Scottsboro Boys” will be honored in new...
Jul 29, 20241 min read
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WHNT - Historic home of Scottsboro Boys trial judge completes move to Decatur
DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) — The former home of Scottsboro Boys trial Judge James Horton is finally in old town Decatur where it’s set to...
Jul 29, 20241 min read
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Positively Decatur Interview with Frances Tate and Peggy Towns
Decatur is soon to be home to a multi-million-dollar civil rights museum, thanks to Celebrating Early Old Town with Art (CEOTA), a...
Jul 29, 20241 min read
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WAAY 31 News - Building that once housed Scottsboro Boys accuser being renovated for civil rights museum
As society moves closer to the 100-year anniversary of a landmark case in which nine Black teens were falsely accused and convicted by an...
Jul 29, 20241 min read
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Scottsboro Boys - CEOTA Civil Rights Museum New QR Code
The Scottsboro Boys - CEOTA Civil Rights Museum has created a QR code to help visitors learn more about the Scottsboro Boys trials.
Feb 3, 20221 min read
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Scottsboro Boys Civil Rights Museum - Website Under Construction
The Board of Directors of the Scottsboro Boys Civil Rights Museum (Decatur, Alabama) have commissioned the development of a website. The...
Feb 2, 20221 min read
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Annual Gala Guest Speaker
Thom Gossom, Jr., will be the guest speaker at CEOTA's (Celebrating Early Old Town with Art) " 5th Annual Gala. Mr. Gossom is, "an...
Feb 2, 20221 min read
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