other crime in the united states has been the subject of so many trials, retrials, convictions, reconvictions, reversals, and two major scream court decisions as the scottsboro case. >> host: this picture here, where was it taken? >> guest: that picture was taken shortly after the boys were arrested in paint rock, alabama. it's become a kind of iconic photograph of the case, and it's one that was the most widely circulated in the united states and abroad. >> host: and why is it iconic in your view? >> guest: because i think it captures so many aspects of the case even when it was not written about. the -- forlorn and bewildered expression of the boys themselves, as they were called, their poverty, the mill tarrization of the -- militarization of the trial that surrounded them, the total ab jex of the scene itself. >> host: if they were arrested in paint rock, how did this become known as the scottsboro's boys case? >> guest: because scottsboro was the town in which the first trials were held. the boys were arrested on march 31st, 1931. within two weeks, all of the boys had been tried, eight o