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Efforts to secure a pardon for those convicted met with stiff local opposition, though Governor Graves commuted Norris's death sentence to life imprisonment. Graves was invited to meet socially with President Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Georgia, though guessing that the president intended to ask him to consider a pardon, the governor declined to meet. In November 1943 the state released Weems, and in January 1947 Andrew Wright and Norris were paroled; though they left the state without permission and were sent back to prison. Charles Weems received his second parole in 1946, the year Ozie Powell was freed. Haywood Patterson escaped in 1948 and settled in Michigan, which refused to extradite him. In June 1950, the last of the Scottsboro Boys in prison, Andrew Wright, was paroled a second time. The case of the Scottsboro Boys remained a matter of general interest for more than the better part of...
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