In Scottsboro, Alabama, the Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center preserves the history and legacy of the Scottsboro Boys case, in which nine young African American men were falsely accused in 1931 of raping two white women on a freight train. Housed in the county’s oldest surviving African American church, the museum grew from Sheila Washington’s determination to remember a traumatic local past that many wanted forgotten. Opened in 2010, it holds artifacts, photographs, newspapers, and local scrapbooks that connect courtroom history with community memory, and it presents the case as a pivotal injustice that helped inspire the modern American civil rights movement.