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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 weekend of detours for motorists and a painstaking moving process, the former home of Judge James Horton, famous for his role in overturning the death penalty verdict of the Scottsboro Boys in the early 1930s, is now in its new location in Decatur.


The story of why the house was moved is somewhat occluded in the annals of local history - something Frances Tate wishes to rectify. Tate, an artist and founder of Celebrating Early Old Town with Art, has made it her mission to share some of the history that helped fuel the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, like the trial of the Scottsboro Boys. Read more.



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