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In the fall of 1934, unknown to Leibowitz, two ILD attorneys offered Price $1,500 to repudiate her testimony. She informed the police and the attorneys were arrested with the bribe money still in their posession. The ILD was thoroughly discredited, and groups that originally had been held at arm's length became centrally involved in the defense effort. On 1 April 1935, in the case of Norris v. Alabama, the verdicts of the Scottsboro Boys were reversed on the grounds that Alabama had systematically excluded blacks from jury service, a deprivation of the defendant's right to a fair trial. The reaction in Alabama revealed the depth of feeling that had been aroused by the critical attention the case had focused on the state. Gov. Bibb Graves was moved to caution against any display of resistance to the ruling and instructed the state's courts to begin impaneling blacks as jurors...
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