Upcoming events.
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.
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.
The Alabama Solution Screening
The Scottsboro Boys Museum, Du Bois Freedom Center, and Alabama Impact Campaign join to present a free screening of award winning film The Alabama Solution. This film documents the six-year investigation to uncover the human cost of the Alabama prison system. For this event, we will also be joined by two of the film’s producers for an after movie panel discussion.
To reserve tickets, go to https://www.thetriplex.org/movie/the-alabama-solution/ . You can also purchase tickets the day of the event.
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/