Upcoming events.
Travel exhibit: University of Alabama Huntsville
The Scottsboro Boys Museum Travel Exhibit will be at UAH’s MOR Hall from January 18 to 25. At this time, it will be relocated to UAH’s Library from January 26 to February 5. Faculty, students, and community members are encouraged to go check out this informative exhibit.
The museum and UAH Humanities Center will be cohosting activist and author Catherine Coleman Flowers on January 20 in correlation with the travel exhibit. To learn more about this, check out the event page.
Memory Wall
Visitors at The Scottsboro Boys Museum have the opportunity to leave a hand drawn tag with a sketch, reflection, writing piece, or other artistic interpretation during the month of February. This special display is presented for Black History Month in collaboration with Northeast Alabama Community College’s art department. We present this to guests as a way to honor the Scottsboro Boys and connect with the community.
Memorial Wall Opening
The Scottsboro Boys Museum, in collaboration with Professor Jaia Chen and the Northeast Alabama Community College Art Department, opens the third annual Art Memory Wall for Black History Month. We invite everyone to join us in enjoying music from the NACC Music Department and a keynote address from Scottsboro Boys descendant Ana Wright.
Learn more about our keynote:
Ana Wright was born into a family steered by strong, insightful women who instilled the importance of knowledge, humanistic behavior and character development. As a result, she achieved her educational goals with a BA in Broadcast Communications, a MS in Project Management, and a MA in Teaching. She has traversed corporate settings, educational settings and the non-profit sector. Currently, she serves as the Executive Director of One Simon Two Rubys and A Hamp, which is a 501(c)(3) that she founded in 2025 to do cemetery restoration and beautification. Her goals are now rooted in ancestral veneration and the unearthing of people, places, truths, and stories - hidden, lost, forgotten or buried. She is a proud descendant of the Wright legacy as the granddaughter of Andy Wright, great granddaughter of Ada Wright and great niece of Leroy Wright.
Travel Exhibit: Du Bois Freedom Center
The Scottsboro Boys Museum is partnering with The Du Bois Freedom Center to present the museum’s travel exhibit throughout Massachusetts and the Northeast. This collaboration brings together the rich legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois activism with the years long campaign to free the Scottsboro Boys from the jaws of inequity. We honor these two pillars of the civil rights movement by connecting their stories to spark conversation about how this history shapes democracy today #KNOWTHEIRSTORY.
Travel Exhibit Event: Reflections on Justice
This program is in conjunction with The Scottsboro Boys Museum and Du Bois Freedom Centers collaboration to bring The Scottsboro Boys Travel Exhibit to Great Barrington, MA from February 9 to April 30, 2026. The travel exhibit will be present and open for viewing at this event.
The exhibit opens at 5 p.m. EST along with refreshments and the moderated conversation begins at 6 p.m. EST. This program features Dr. Thomas Reidy, Scottsboro Boys Museum executive director, in conversation with Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste, director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Center at UMass Amherst. Marcus P. Smith, History and Archival fellow at the Du Bois Freedom Center will be moderating.
The discussion centers on one of the most notorious legal injustices in U.S. history—the 1931 false accusation of nine Black teenagers known as the Scottsboro Boys—and reflects on the legacy of the late Sheila Washington, founder of the Scottsboro Boys Museum. The discussion will examine Washington’s pivotal role in securing the men’s posthumous exoneration through the 2013 Scottsboro Boys Act, as well as the museum’s ongoing work addressing public memory, accountability, and justice.
You can reserve tickets to attend here: https://mahaiwe.org/event/du-bois-freedom-center-presents-reflections-on-justice-w-e-b-du-bois-the-scottsboro-boys-and-legacies-of-injustice/