Welcome to the online home of the Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center.


Take a journey through the veils of time and history by visiting us here and in Scottsboro, Alabama, at the former Joyce Chapel United Methodist Church, a few blocks from the Jackson County Courthouse. Through our collections, exhibits, and educational programs, you'll explore the beginnings of the modern Civil Rights Movement in the events the world has come to know as
"The Scottsboro Boys Trials."

Click here for a PDF brochure on The Scottsboro Boys Trials Historic Route, a guide to historic sites in Alabama and Tennessee related to the Scottsboro Trials of the 1930s and the stirrings of civil rights activism in the U.S. South.