The Scottsboro Boys

FOURTH DRAFT An American Tragedy: The Hawaiian Scottsboro Boys In his book, “A Death in the Islands – The Unwritten Law and the Last Trial of Clarence Darrow,” Mike Farris recounts in vivid detail a miscarriage of justice in early 1930s Hawaii that echoes an all-too-familiar American theme. We learn that several men, collectively known as the Ala Moana Boys, were the Hawaiian equivalent of their more notorious black contemporaries, the Scottsboro Boys of Alabama, who themselves became…

to be racist towards anyone. However, racism still exists not only in The United States but all over the world. Looking at racism in the 20th century, some strong examples that it exist are obvious in To Kill a Mockingbird, the trials of the Scottsboro Boys and the Emmett Till murder. The deaths of Michael Brown and the Trayvon Martin show how race relations in the 21st century have evolved but is still a continuing struggle in society. All of these tragedies are obvious examples of the…

The Scottsboro Trials The Scottsboro Trials was an affair done by nine African American males who allegedly raped two innocent white women, and they were tried for their act. The raping of the women, whose names were Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, took place on a train from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Memphis, Tennessee on March 25, 1931. A quote about this can be portrayed as, “Two dozen or so, mainly male-and mainly young-whites and blacks, rode the Southern Railroad's Chattanooga to Memphis…

The Scottsboro trials of the 1930’s had more victims than just the boys, the girls were victims as well. Society has a huge influence on how people act and what they do, and it victimizes people by creating scenarios that are a lose-lose situation. Just like the case of Mayella Ewells in To Kill a Mockingbird or the 2 girls who accused the Scottsboro boys of rape. Mayella Ewells, Ruby Bates, and Victoria Price are all accusers and victims because of society. Mayella Ewells and Ruby Bates have…

During the 1930’s there was a case of white people against black boys in the town of Paint Rock, AL (Ransdall).” This case was known as The Scottsboro Trials. A novel written by Harper Lee titled To Kill a Mockingbird has a similar plot in which a black man, or Negro, was accused of raping a white woman (Lee). Both of these stories have similarities and parallels that are interesting to indulge in. The social characteristics, stigmas, and opinions if superiority influence the behaviors and…

The Scottsboro trials were a horrific event in the USA’s history. The incident occurred when a group of black and white men got in a fight on a train while two other white women were on board. Most of the white men were thrown off the train during the trip. When the train arrived at Point Rock, Alabama nine black men, one white man, and the two women were arrested for riding the rails. The two women-who were known prostitutes-claimed that the black men raped them. Thus only 12 days after the…

During the 1930’s there was a case of white people against black boys in the town of Paint Rock, AL (Ransdall).” This case was known as The Scottsboro Trials. A novel written by Harper Lee titled To Kill a Mockingbird has similar plot in which a black man, or Negro, was accused of raping a white woman (Lee). Both of these stories have similarities and parallels that are interesting to indulge in.The social characteristics, stigmas, and opinions if superiority influence the behaviors and…

In what initially began as a case of whites versus blacks, the Scottsboro trial soon escalated into a trial of capitalists versus communists and a repeat of the common battles between Jews and Gentiles and North battling South. The Scottsboro boys morphed into pawns for battles where the outcome had little to do with them. Organizations fought over the fame of defending the unjustly accused nine Scottsboro boys. Through much perseverance, the American Communist Party received complete compliance…

hard hitting evidence that not everything is so equal and it will explain the connections between two different situations but the same injustice within the black community. The Scottsboro Boys case is about nine young boys who were riding the rails looking for work, but they were illegally riding the trains. These nine boys, Charlie Weems, Ozie Powell,…

nine innocent black teenager boys involved accusations of a gang rape by two white women. The group of nine black boys, and a group of white boys were on a Southern railroad freight run to find jobs between Chattanooga and Memphis. A white boy stepped on a black boy, Haywood Patterson’s, hand, which caused a drastic stone throwing fight between the two groups of boys which impacted the whole turn of events. The black group of boys successfully beat the white group of boys and threw them off the…