ALABAMA:The arrest of the Scottsboro boys..

Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell, Clarence Norris, Andrew Wright, Leroy Wright, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Haywood Patterson, and Eugene Williams were the nine "Scottsboro Boys."

The nine Black teenagers, aged between 13 and 19, were accused of raping two white women. They had all been riding a train on which a fight broke out.

Despite one woman recanting her story, eight of the nine men were sentenced to death, resulting in a lengthy legal battle that had massive implications for America's race relations and legal system. Many now consider the case a gross miscarriage of justice (mostly due to its all-white juries).

In 2013, 82 years after their arrests, three of the Scottsboro boys were posthumously pardoned. Four already had the charges against them dropped in 1938, and one was pardoned in 1976 as the last living Scottsboro boy. All nine were innocent — it just took eight decades for Alabama to admit it.

The entire Coulthurst family (father, mother, and two kids), and four teenage deckhands, were shot to death aboard a fishing boat called the Investor on September 6, 1982. The killer is then believed to have returned to the scene the next afternoon to set the boat on fire.

It was the biggest mass murder in Alaskan history and rocked the small fishing town of Craig, where it took place.

Two years after the murders, the police arrested John Peel, a former employee of the Coulthursts. His first trial in 1986 ended in a hung jury and a mistrial, and he was acquitted in his second trial. He told People in 2017, "Somebody out there knows what happened."

The case remains unsolved.

RAPE:A STORY THAT MAKES ME CRY...

When Sarah Whitney was 16, she was raped by someone she had never met before while visiting a gym with her best friend. At the time, Sarah’s friend didn’t know what had happened to her and Sarah only wanted to tell her then-boyfriend. He reacted in an extremely unsupportive and hurtful way—blaming her for the incident and breaking up with her on the spot.

The reaction of the first person a survivor tells is pivotal and can have a huge effect on their healing. Her boyfriend’s reaction not only made her feel that she was to blame, but discouraged her from telling anyone else. “He was the closest person to me at the time, so I thought that if he didn’t believe me, no one would.”

Sexual assault was not a topic that her friends and family discussed, so she felt that no one would understand or believe her, including law enforcement. “I kept it to myself for the year following because I was struggling and didn’t know anyone who had been through it.” She experienced depression, anxiety, and PTSD.

Though she had not told them what happened, her family noticed a change in her behavior. Her mother wanted to help and brought her to a therapist. Sarah didn’t feel ready to talk yet, so therapy was not helpful. “I didn’t want to go talk to a stranger about it. Going to therapy made me feel even worse because I was doing something that was supposed to help me, but it wasn’t working. I didn’t understand why.”

Sarah’s reaction to the trauma she experienced affected her relationship with her family. “It was a really dark lonely year. I stepped away from them.” A year after the assault, Sarah attempted suicide. When she was recovering in the hospital after, she told a nurse about the assault. With Sarah’s permission, the nurse told her family about the assault. Her family was supportive when they found out, but Sarah wishes she had been able to tell them herself.