A museum about the infamous Scottsboro Boys rape case has won a $5,000 grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The 1933 trial for one of the accused, Haywood Patterson, was presided over by Limestone County Circuit Judge James Edwin Horton. Horton made the unpopular decision at the time to overturn the jury’s guilty verdict in the case, saying the evidence showed the alleged victims had not told the truth. He was taken off the case and he lost his bid for re-election in 1934.

History, though, remembers Horton as a hero in the case. A historical marker in Limestone County Courthouse tells of Horton’s sacrifice.

The museum grant money will go toward consultation with scholars about the trial, plus a historic trail of sites related to the case in the north Alabama town of Scottsboro.

Nine young black men went on trial in Scottsboro in 1931 on charges of raping two white women in a case that made headlines worldwide. The defendants became known as “The Scottsboro Boys,” and the charges were revealed as a sham.

A small museum about the case opened earlier this year in an old church in Scottsboro. It recently received another grant to add audio visual presentations.