The Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center will officially open on Monday, Feb. 1 at 10 a.m.
Ceremonies dedicating the facility, located at Joyce Chapel United Methodist Church on West Willow Street, will be held beginning at 10 a.m. Lecia J. Brooks, the director of Montgomery’s Civil Rights Museum and an employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center, will be a featured speaker along with Kathy Horton Garrett, the granddaughter of Judge James E. Horton who presided over the trial of one of nine black teenagers accused of raping two white women while on a train traveling through Jackson County in 1931.