Almost 100 years since being wrongly accused of rape, the nine African Americans known as the “Scottsboro Boys” will be honored in new museum in Decatur. The Celebrating Early Old Town with ...

In their final, audacious collaboration, theater legends John Kander and the late Fred Ebb, who died in 2004, let the Scottsboro Boys tell their own story, using the framing device of a minstrel show.