Forrest McClendon (born in Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American stage actor, singer and professor.
 McClendon received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical nomination in 2011 for his portrayal of Mr. Tambo in the Broadway musical, "The Scottsboro Boys".
 "The Scottsboro Boys" had marked McClendon's Broadway debut.
The Scottsboro Boys is a musical with a book by David Thompson, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.
 Based on the Scottsboro Boys trial, the musical is one of the last collaborations between Kander and Ebb prior to the latter's death.
 The musical has the framework of a minstrel show, altered to "create a musical social critique" with a company that, except for one, consists "entirely of African-American performers".
Harry Haywood (February 6, 1898 – January 4, 1985) was a leading figure in both the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
 His goal was to connect the political philosophy of the Communist Party with the issues of race.
 In 1926, he joined other African-American Communists and travelled to the Soviet Union to study the effect of Communism on racial issues found in the United States.
 His work there resulted in his selection to be the head of the Communist Party's Negro Department.
 The party platform changed by the late 1930s and began to stray away from advocating for African-American self-determination.
 As the party's platform changed over time, Haywood lost his stance within the party.
 His work also included creating a group to help the Scottsboro boys case.
 Haywood was also an author.
 His first book was "Negro Liberation", published in 1948.
 After he was expelled from his affiliating party, he wrote an autobiography called "Black Bolshevik", which was also published in 1978.
 He contributed major theory to Marxist thinking on the national question of African Americans in the United States.
 He was also a founder of the Maoist New Communist movement.
Brandon Victor Dixon (born 1981) is an American actor, singer and theatrical producer.
 As an actor, he is known for playing the Broadway roles of Harpo in "The Color Purple" (2005), for which he was nominated for a Tony Award, and Berry Gordy Jr. in "" (2013).
 In London's West End, in 2014–2015, he played the role of Hayward Patterson in "The Scottsboro Boys".
 In 2016, he played the role of Eubie Blake on Broadway in "Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed", for which he was nominated for another Tony.
Haywood Patterson was one of the original Scottsboro Boys, born in Elberton, Georgia on December 12, 1912.
 By the time he was fourteen, he was riding the rails, looking for work.
 He was 18 when he hopped on an Alabama-bound freight train with his friends: Eugene Williams, Roy Wright, and Andy Wright.
 Patterson admitted that he was one of the black teenagers who fought with white hoboes, who had tried to force them off the train, but the charge against him was rape, a capital punishment at the time in Alabama.
 The reason that he was charged with rape was that two white hoboes also on the train, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, accused nine black teenagers on the train of rape to try to avoid charges pressed against them.
Fred Ebb (April 8, 1928 – September 11, 2004) was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander.
 The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera.
Joseph R. Brodsky, often known as Joseph Brodsky and Joe Brodsky, was an early 20th-Century American civil rights lawyer, political activist, general counsel of the International Labor Defense (ILD), co-founder of the International Juridical Association (IJA), and member of ILD defense team for members of the Scottsboro Boys Case of the 1930s.
B. D. Amis (Benjamin DeWayne Amis; 7 July 1896 – 9 June 1993) was an African American labor organizer and civil rights leader.
 Particularly influential in the fight for African Americans' and workers during the period of official segregation in the South and informal discrimination throughout the country, Amis is most remembered for his militant Communist activism on behalf of the notable legal cases of the falsely-accused Scottsboro Boys, the African American organizer Angelo Herndon, as well as the white labor leader Tom Mooney.
Norris v. Alabama, 294 U.S. 587 (1935) , was one of the cases decided by the United States Supreme Court that arose out of the trial of the Scottsboro Boys.
 The Supreme Court held that the systematic exclusion of African Americans from jury service violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
 The case was a significant advance in the Supreme Court's criminal procedure jurisprudence.
 Building on the existing precedent of "Strauder v. West Virginia" (1880) and "Neal v. Delaware" (1882), the Supreme Court addressed an Alabama statute that was facially neutral, but held that a criminal defendant could establish a prima facie claim of discrimination by showing that a substantial number of African Americans live in a community and that African Americans have been excluded from serving on juries.
The Brown–Proctor House is a historic residence in Scottsboro, Alabama.
 The house was built in 1881 by John A. Brown, who sold it just one year later.
 John Franklin Proctor, a politician who served in the Alabama Legislature from 1892 through 1899 and was an attorney for the Scottsboro Boys in 1931, purchased the house in 1907.
 Proctor made numerous renovations to the house, including altering the two-story front portico with Tuscan columns into its current state of a single-level porch supported by Ionic columns with a central second floor balcony.
 A three-room addition was also built onto the back of the house, adding to the central hall plan of the original house.
 After his death in 1934, Proctor's family owned the house until 1981.

Question: The music and lyrics for Scottsboro Boys was by a team who frequently wrote for performers such as who?
Answer: Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera