Haywood Patterson

Contemporary accounts and later historical analysis indicate the accusation helped the women avoid vagrancy or related charges.

The defendants, most of whom did not know one another, were Haywood Patterson, who was about 18 years old at the time, Clarence Norris, who was about 19, Charlie Weems, who was 19 to 20 years old, An individual named Andy Wright, who was around 19 years old, and Roy Leroy Wright, who was about between 13 to 14 years old.

There was also Olin Montgomery, who was about 17.

And they're saying that...

Ruby Bates recanted.

She would write a letter in early 1932, and she was stating that the defendants had not touched her.

And also in 1933, she would testify for the defendants at Haywood Patterson's retrial in Decatur that the rape story was false and made up.

Victoria Price never recanted.