Scottsboro

Scottsboro is in the region of Alabama and is the seat of Jackson County, having enlivened a railroad mode of commerce there. It is a memorial to a seemingly rare instance where civil rights prevailed in the otherwise rather torn history of equality in this country, in a case known as the Scottsboro Boys.
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  • Type: Town with 15,600 residents
  • Description: city in Alabama, United States
  • Also known as: Sage Town”, “Scotts Mill”, “Scottsboro, AL”, “Scottsboro, Alabama”, “Scottsborough”, and “Scottsville
  • Postal codes: 35768 and 35769

Places of Interest

Highlights include Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center.

Museum
The Scottsboro Boys Museum is located at 428 West Willow Street in Scottsboro, Alabama, in the United States. Its focus is on the Scottsboro Boys case, which involved nine young African American men falsely accused in 1931 of raping two white women while hoboing aboard a freight train.

Scottsboro

Latitude
34.6731° or 34° 40′ 23″ north
Longitude
-86.0339° or 86° 2′ 2″ west
Population
15,600
Elevation
643 feet (196 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US SQB
Open location code
866MMXF8+7C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153374500
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4088916
Wiki­data ID
Q79577
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Scottsboro” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: سكوتسبورو
  • Basque: Scottsboro
  • Catalan: Scottsboro
  • Cebuano: Scottsboro
  • Central Kurdish: سکۆتسبۆرۆ، ئەلاباما
  • Chechen: Скоттсборо
  • Chinese: Scottsboro
  • Chinese: 斯科茨博罗
  • Czech: Scottsboro
  • Danish: Scottsboro
  • Dutch: Scottsboro
  • Egyptian Arabic: سكوتسبورو
  • Esperanto: Scottsboro
  • Finnish: Scottsboro
  • French: Scottsboro
  • German: Scottsboro
  • Gilaki: اسکاتس‌بؤرؤ
  • Haitian: Scottsboro
  • Hungarian: Scottsboro
  • Ido: Scottsboro, Alabama
  • Ido: Scottsboro
  • Indonesian: Scottsboro, Alabama
  • Indonesian: Scottsboro
  • Irish: Scottsboro
  • Italian: Scottsboro
  • Japanese: スコッツボロ
  • Korean: 스코츠버러
  • Ladin: Scottsboro
  • Malagasy: Scottsboro, Alabama
  • Malagasy: Scottsboro
  • Mazanderani: اسکاتسبرا
  • Min Nan Chinese: Scottsboro
  • Newari: स्कटस्बरो, अलाबामा
  • Newari: स्कटस्बरो
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Scottsboro
  • Norwegian: Scottsboro
  • Occitan (post 1500): Scottsboro
  • Persian: اسکاتسبرا، آلاباما
  • Persian: اسکاتسبرا، الاباما
  • Persian: اسکاتسبرا
  • Polish: Scottsboro
  • Portuguese: Scottsboro
  • Russian: Скотсборо
  • Scottish Gaelic: Scottsboro
  • Serbian: Scottsboro
  • Serbian: Скотсборо
  • Serbo-Croatian: Scottsboro, Alabama
  • Serbo-Croatian: Scottsboro
  • Slovak: Scottsboro
  • South Azerbaijani: اسکاتسبرا، آلاباما
  • Spanish: Scottsboro (Alabama)
  • Spanish: Scottsboro
  • Swedish: Scottsboro, Alabama
  • Swedish: Scottsboro
  • Tatar: Скоттсборо
  • Turkish: Scottsboro, Alabama
  • Turkish: Scottsboro
  • Ukrainian: Скоттсборо
  • Uzbek: Scottsboro
  • Vietnamese: Scottsboro, Alabama
  • Vietnamese: Scottsboro
  • Volapük: Scottsboro
  • Waray (Philippines): Scottsboro, Alabama
  • Waray (Philippines): Scottsboro
  • Welsh: Scottsboro, Alabama
  • Welsh: Scottsboro

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Scottsboro”. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.